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Our Trip to 
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IN ATTENDANCE UPON THE 



General Convention 



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OUR TRIP TO CALIFORNIA. 



ON THE OUTWARD WAY. 



At the Convention of the Diocese of Penn- 
sylvania, which met in May last, the Rector 
was elected a deputy to the General Conven- 
tion appointed to assemble in San Francisco 
on October 2. As the weeks rolled by, and 
the time for the meeting of the Convention 
drew near, the question became an interesting 
one, by what route shall we go and by what 
route shall we return? The "we" at that 
time consisted of Mrs. William W. Farr, 
whose husband's memory is still so warmly 
cherished by so many in our church, the 
Rector's wife, and himself. Time tables 
were gathered and itineraries carefully studied 
that the utmost possible satisfaction might 
be secured, both going and returning. Much 
the most attractive outward itinerary was 
that arranged by the Raymond & Whitcomb 
Company, leaving Boston, New York and 
Philadelphia on Friday, September 20, and 
going, as was stated in the prepared circular, 
"via the Great Northwest, traversing the 
magnificent scenic region of the Canadian 
Rockies by daylight, Seattle, Tacoma and 
Portland, through the valleys of the Umpqua 
and Rogue Rivers, over the Siskiou Moun- 
tains, and through the IMount Shasta Region." 
It was also stated that the train going by this 
route would be a special one, with a particular 
schedule prepared for it, "arranged so as to 
include the above grand attractions in a com- 
fortable and leisurely manner," and that the 
number of persons who could be cared for 
would be "positively limited." The only 
trouble about this train in the Rector's mind 
was this — it was scheduled to leave on Friday, 
September 20. The Rector had set his heart 
upon being at home in Philadelphia on Sun- 
day, September 22, and officiating in his 
accustomed place. What could be done? 
It was finally concluded that the opportunity 
of going by the best train, and in the best way 
for seeing the most glorious of Nature's won- 
ders, was too good a one to be lost. "It is 



once in a lifetime;" this thought gathered 
force until it became decisive. Meanwhile 
the Rector's party had grown. It finally in- 
cluded not only Mrs. Farr, his wife and him- 
self, but also two of his daughters and Miss 
Nina F. Lewis, all members of our congrega- 
tion. 

As Pullman tickets had been secured, and 
all arrangements made that a day might 
be spent at Niagara Falls and the Buffalo 
Exposition, the ladies of the party then in 
Philadelphia left the Reading Terminal on 
Thursday, September 19, at 10.30 a. m. 
The Rector remained for the day, that he 
might take part in the memorial service held 
in our church in honor of President McKinley. 
Great was his surprise on reaching the church 
ten minutes before the hour of service to hear 
from Dr. Mac Alister, president of the Drexel 
Institute, who w-as seeking entrance by the 
rear door, that crowds were pressing in front, 
and admission there was practically impossi- 
ble. The service prepared by the Bishop of 
the Diocese was read by him, excepting only 
the lesson, which was read by Rev. Mr. 
Beagen. The time given by our good Bishop 
to the preparation of a service than which 
none could have been more appropriate made 
the service very familiar to him. So natu- 
rally his reading of it carried home its words 
to every heart in a most impressive way. 
The Rector made the address. He could do 
this the more readily by reason of his friendly 
personal relations with the dead President, 
covering a period of many years. It seemed 
as though men were touched that day by the 
general sorrow as great masses of men are but 
rarely touched on earth. It would have been 
a real grief to the Rector if he could not have 
been present at that service. Indeed, his 
feeling was such that he would have sacri- 
ficed almost anything to that end. 

By taking a night train he joined his 
family at Niagara Falls the following day. 



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The morning was spent in looking at the 
Falls, from one point of view and another. 
Rain fell in the afternoon, but not enough to 
keep some eager travelers away from the 
Buffalo Exposition, that they might see there 
just a little, including the wonderful electri- 
cal illumination of the buildings after the close 
of day. It was indeed wonderful, the one 
thing to be seen at this particular Exposition 
far surpassing anything of the kind that had 
ever been attempted before. 

Mrs. Farr had been in the Adirondacks. 
She joined us after our return to Niagara, and 
we were all soon ensconced in our berths in a 
Pullman car which was to be our abode until 
we reached San Francisco. Had all gone 
well, we should have left Niagara soon after 
midnight. But a wreck on the Boston & 
Albany Railroad detained most of our fellow- 
passengers, so that our train did not finally 
pull out until nearly daylight. On our own 
car, besides the Rector's party, there were the 
following Philadelphians : Rev. Dr. C. S. 
Olmsted, Francis A. Lewis, Esq., and Row- 
land Evans, Esq., accompanied by his wife 
and daughter. On other cars there were 
Bishops Lawrence, McVickar and Brewster, 
and not a few leading clerical and lay deputies 
to the Convention, including the Rev. Dr. 
Lindsay, of Boston, who was afterward 
chosen president of the House of Deputies 
by a very large majority of votes. Some 
good friends have since pleasantly called our 
train "The Caucus Train." There was a 
great deal of good-fellowship on the train, 
and Dr. Lindsay was there as elsewhere a 
favorite, but the amount of "caucusing" 
done was not great. It was not necessary. 

And what shall we say of the ladies, some 
with gray hairs, but all young with grace 
and enthusiasm? Miss Coles, of Philadel- 
phia, was in the car with her devoted friend, 
Miss McVickar, now of Rhode Island, but 
heretofore and always of the City of Bro- 
therly Love. Prominent leaders in the 
Woman's Auxiliary were there by the score. 
As Dr. Olmsted afterwards wrote of them: 



They try to make our days pleasant, 
They bow and smile as they pass. 

How wonderfully they succeeded! Without 
them even our glorious trip would have 
failed of more than half its enjoyment. 

Our daylight ride through Canada to the 
Detroit River, on Saturday, was uneventful. 
We had but a glimpse of the beautiful City of 
the Straits, and then passed on through Ann 
Arbor, Jackson and Kalamazoo to the one 
and only Chicago. We were scheduled to 
arrive in that marvelous city of wondrous 
material greatness at four o'clock, but our 
delay in leaving Niagara made us four hours 
late, so that as soon as was possible we pressed 
onward to Minneapolis. To those who wakened 
early on Sunday morning the ride from La 
Crosse to St. Paul along the beautiful " Father 
of Waters" brought much enjoyment. At 
Minneapolis we were transferred to the West 
House, and soon afterwards many found their 
way to one church and another for praise and 
prayer. At St. Mark's the Bishop of Con- 
necticut preached a stirring sermon, making 
eloquent reference to Bishop Whipple, who 
had then just died, and lifting up some of the 
glories of the Church which he loved and 
served. Bishop Brewster's spirit was the 
spirit of an older son of Yale, 

Beyond my highest joy 

I prize her heavenly ways, 
Her sweet communion, solemn vows, 

Her hymns of love and praise. 

On Monday morning about half-past nine 
o'clock, we left Minneapolis by the St. Paul & 
Sault Ste. Jlarie Railroad otherwise known as 
the "Soo Pacific Line," journeying north- 
westward through Minnesota and North 
Dakota. In the latter State, where blizzards 
are born and grow to great dimensions, we 
had a genuine storm of snow. Think of it! 
When the thermometer in Philadelphia was 
up in the nineties, we were passing through 
not a snow squall, but a snow storm. On 
Tuesday morning we were at Portal, just on 
the Canadian border, and not very many 
hours thereafter we halted at Moose Jaw, 



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where some of us walked to the post office, 
bought some Canadian stamps, sent off some 
telegrams, and got some letters ready for 
" posting." And so we passed on by day and 
by night over a country but thinly populated, 
seeing here and there a few huts and tents, 
some Indians, and some railway workmen, 
and only one coyote, through "Swift Cur- 
rent" and "Medicine Hat," until, on Wednes- 
day morning, we reached Calgary. It so 
happens that a daily newspaper is published 
in Calgary, which is described in our guide- 
book as "the most important as well as the 
handsomest place between Brandon and Van- 
couver." We were afterwards told that this 
newspaper spoke disrespectfully of a party 
which preceded ours, journeying to San Fran- 
cisco for the Convention, saying that money 
might belong and must to these wayfarers, 
for certainly they were not traveling on their 
looks. Our Ohio and Virginia friends were 
not much troubled by these comments. If 
they had only been with us, however, they 
would most certainly have escaped them alto- 
gether. Calgary was in festive attire, waiting 
the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of York, 
for whose coming great preparations were then 
being made. Flags were everywhere, cheap 
as well as abundant, so a good many found 
their way into our cars, and are now, no 
doubt, decorating many homes in New Eng- 
land, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and 
the District of Columbia. The Mounted 
Police, too, went through their performances 
handsomely, of course in honor of their dis- 
tinguished American visitors. 

Perhaps this is a good place for the intro- 
duction of some descriptive matter taken from 
a railway " folder" : 

Calgar}', a thriving city, marks the Pid of the roll- 
ing plains, and from here the Rock> Mountains are 
plainly in sight. After a ride of three hours "The 
Gap," which marks the beginning of five hundred 
miles of the wildest and most picturesque scenery on 
the continent, is reached. The contrast of rising to 
mountain heights from low plains is now thoroughly 
impressive. The beautiful Bow River, which ap- 
pears oS and on for the next hundred miles, makes 
its first appearance here. At "The Gap" station a 



magnificent view is obtained of Wind Mountain and 
the Three Sisters. A remarkable contrast between 
the ranges ahead is noticeable. On the right are 
fantastically broken and castellated heights; on the 
left, massive snow-laden promontories rising thous- 
ands of feet, penetrated by enormous alcoves in 
which haze and shadow of gorgeous coloring lie en- 
gulfed. The jaggedness of profile observed from 
the plains is now explained. Eighteen miles beyond 
"The Gap" is Banff, in the heart of the Rock}- 
Mountain Park. 

Few places have found such speedy recognition of 
their attractiveness, and none have better deserved 
the encomiums of enthusiastic tourists, for of all the 
lovely spots that gem the American continent, it 
stands alone without a rival. Its surroundings are 
the mountain steeps beside whose immense jagged 
heights the crags and peaks of the Alps sink into 
insignificance. It is not a question of one mountain 
or of two, but of many, for they stretch far away as 
the eye can follow them, and roll upon one another 
in chaotic disorder. The very acme of sublimity 
and grandeur is reached, and in its natural beauty 
Banff finds no counterpart in other lands. In the 
centre of this magnificent panorama are the Banff 
Hot Springs — natural wells of mineral water having^ 
peculiar medicinal qvialities — and here the Canadian 
Pacific Railwa}- Company has erected a large and 
well-appointed hotel, perched on a lofty promontory 
which commands not only an uninterrupted view of 
the Bow Valley, but of peaks and stretches of the 
Rockies in other directions. In the surrounding 
country for miles, science has availed itself of 
nature's lavish gifts to create, out of the wilderness, 
a mountain park, twenty-six miles long by ten wide, 
a public pleasure-ground without an equal. Streams 
have been bridged, roads laid out, and trails cut, 
penetrating for miles into the solitudes, so that in 
many directions the visitors may drive, ride, wheel, 
or wander afoot, inhaling the health-giving moun- 
tain air, or seeking the most favorable spots for 
biiish, pencil, kodak, rod or gun. 

We reached Banff in time for luncheon, and 
afterwards took a drive in an open carriage, 
not minding much the slowly-falling rain, for 
beauty was everywhere and strength, and 
we wanted to see as much as possible of the 
power and glory of one of the greatest of 
mountain ranges. The afternoon passed 
quickly, and the evening too, at the Banff 
hotel. We were not unduly late in going 
to bed, for we were to leave the next 
morning at eight o'clock "for a tour of two 
davs through the grand scenery of the Cana- 



OUR TRIP TO CALIFORNIA. 



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dian Rockies." Sure enough, we were off the 
next morning bright and early; and after- 
wards what visions we beheld! The day was 
bright and glorious, and the frosts had 
already touched the foliage, so that the 
abounding maples were everywhere shining 
as gold. And the shrubbery ! Was ever any 
carpet stretched in a palace so rich and varied 
in its beauty? On and on we went, with 
mountain crags above us and rushing waters 
beneath, passing helmet-shaped Lefroy, cross- 
ing the deep gorge of the Kicking Horse River, 
by Cathedral Rock, within sight of peaks, 
from any one of which ' ' by actual count more 
than eighty distinct glaciers are visible with- 
out the aid of a field-glass." And so on to the 
Great Glacier — "a vast plateau of gleaming 
ice, one glacier of a group of glaciers alto- 
gether, as large, it is said, as all those of 
Switzerland combined, the ice field of which 
the Great Glacier is one of a number of outlets, 
embracing more than two hundred square 
miles." 

At Glacier we halted for the night, sleeping 
on the cars. But we found time to go to the 
hotel for an entertainment which had been 
arranged for on the train. All kinds of 
trinkets, most of them of very small actual 
value, had been contributed, and Mr. Francis 
A. Lewis had consented to act as "Auc- 
tioneer." The sale was to be for the benefit 
of a church in North Dakota. Well, there 
was "lots of fun" in the sale, and the bidding 
was lively, almost as lively as Mr. Lewis' 
wit, which was most entertaining. Three 
bright poems were read, which afterwards 
brought good prices, as did some sketches 
made by some gifted ladies who know Massa- 
chusetts as their home. Dr. Olmsted's 
" Lines read at Glacier" began 

We're bound for San Francisco 

Upon the Pacific Sea: — 
Disciples a hundred and twenty 

And bishops numbering three. 

Then followed some very bright character- 
ization of the bishops and many of the clerical 
and lay deputies of the party, and afterwards 
these lines: 



We've come through Minnesota, 

And the land of the antelope, 
We saw the marvels of Moose Jaw, 

And Calgary, Canada's hope. 

We came near seeing a Duchess; 

And Cornwall's royal Duke; 
M}'' goodness ! Isn't it dreadful! 

I wonder how they lukel 

We got off at Sandoun, a village. 

And saw some dogs about; 
There we wish to build a teinple 

Of timbers strong and stout. 

We passed by shallow rivers 

And wildernesses grand; 
Snow filled the sacred darkness 

While sleep sifted over the land. 

Fair Autumn has gone before us 
And touched the earth with gold ; 

The mountains guard the valleys 
As a shepherd doth his fold. 

We have reached the gateways of Eden, 
We have passed o'er a wonderfid road 

We have seen our humanity's working, 
We have felt the finger of God. 

'Twill make us stronger to labor, 

'Twill help us in our prayers, 
'Twill give us sublimer feeling 

'Mid legislative cares. 

I would we might carry the spirit 
Of the mountains and the streams 

To the land of the Pacific, 

Where the golden sunset gleams; 

That sympathetic wisdom 

Might fill our purposes 
And love light on the banners 

We give to every breeze ! 

That all our American people 

Might kinship with us hold 
And say "This General Convention 

Was greater than any of old. " 

Rain came with Friday morning, but ere 
long it disappeared and we could see "Sir 
Donald" looming above us ten thousand feet, 
and the Loop, and other wonders of the 
heights and of the deep. It was on Friday 
afternoon, as we were skirting Shuswap Lake, 
that we saw the most wonderful rainbow we 



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OUR TRIP TO CALIFORNIA 



had ever looked upon. Some of us after- 
wards saw one equally beautiful, on Sunday, 
October 27, at the Grand Canyon in Arizona. 
In size and splendor and intensity of color, we 
can never hope to see the like again on earth. 
On Friday evening we entered Thompson 
Canyon, and afterwards Fraser Canyon. 
The scenery of the latter is thought by many 
to be the grandest in our land. As our guide- 
book says, "It is not only interesting, but 
startling. It has been well described as 
'matchless.' The great river is forced be- 
tween vertical walls of black rocks where, 
repeatedly thrown back upon itself by oppos- 
ing cliffs, or broken by ponderous masses of 
fallen rock, it madly foams and roars." If 
possible, the sight was even more impressive 
by night than by day. The moon was full. 
So we turned ofT the lights in the car and 
looked out upon the shifting landscape. The 
breath of some came quickly as they looked. 
It seemed so very dangerous to be running 
along such precipitous rocks, with such awful 
chasms yawning below. When we reached 
Yale on towards midnight a gentleman of the 
party said feelingly that he was glad to have 
seen such wonders, but that he would not 
make the trip again for a thousand dollars in 
cash. Some of us would be glad to do it for 
that amount of money every day in the year, 
and pour the greater part of the proceeds into 
the Missionary Treasury. Nevertheless, 
filled to the full with such wonderful sights, 
we were more than ready to close our eyes in 
sleep. 

On Saturday morning we wakened in the 
State of Washington only to learn that our 
train was much behind time. There had 
been a needless delay through the folly of 
some Custom House official, as we crossed the 
border, and the Northern Pacific engine 
which was pulling us was too small for our 
heavy train. So, though due at Seattle for 
an early breakfast, we did not reach there 
until nearly noon. Meanwhile we had parted 
with our dining cars, and so had to wait for 
breakfast. Churchmen and Churchwomen 
were in readiness at the "Rainier-Grand" to 



welcome us, and to show us the sights, but 
first we had to be fed, and afterwards there 
was but little time to see a city which is 
advancing with giant strides. We reached 
Tacoma between three and four o'clock, 
where we fared much better; special trolley 
cars were prepared for us, and we had time for 
a glance at a solidly-built and very attractive 
cit}' of homes. One of the most attractive 
things we saw was the "Annie Wright Semi- 
nary," founded by Mr. Charles B. Wright, 
whose generosity was manifested in the en- 
largement of the Church of the Saviour, Phil- 
adelphia, as well as by many good works on 
the Pacific Coast. Sunday morning found us 
in Portland, Oregon, in time for an early 
breakfast at the "Portland," which was 
much enjoyed. The Portland is one of the 
best of hotels, as Portland is one of the most 
beautiful of cities. At the appointed hour 
we sought Trinity Church for worship and 
instruction. A very vigorous sermon was 
preached by the Bishop of Montana, who was 
one of the many bishops and clergy assem- 
bled by many trains and routes for a day of 
Sunday rest in the chief city of Oregon. The 
Rector was apparently somewhat ungracious, 
because he could not announce his list of 
Episcopal speakers for a Missionary meeting 
in the evening, but that doubtless was a 
matter only of the passing moment. In the 
afternoon we mounted one of the hills over- 
looking the city on the Williamette, and there, 
through an air as clear as crystal, saw far 
away four snow-capped peaks. Mount Adams, 
Mount Tacoma, Mount St. Helens and ilount 
Hood. 

The following words written about Port- 
land are really not too strong : 

" Portland, with its mountain setting and its near- 
by Columbia that rolls majestically to the sea, capa- 
ble of carrying any commerce on its broad bosom, 
and hiding in its depths the vast wealth of the 
salmon fisheries! Human vision never rested on a 
fairer spot for a city — a plateau beside the Wil- 
liamette, where the great business centre stands, 
with its perpetual testimony of wealth and enter- 
prise, and rising into the thoroughfares of homes 
that climb to the overlooking heights." 




The Rt. Rev. William White, D. D., 

First Bishop of Pennsylvania. 




The Rt. Rev. Alonzo Potter, D,D., 

Third Bishop of Pennsylvania. 



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37 



Somewhere about nine o'clock in the even- 
ing we were again on our cars, now bound for 
San Francisco. Here are some descriptive 
words telling of this portion of our trip : 

"The journey from Portland to San Francisco over 
the Shasta Route affords one of the most picturesque 
and diversified railway rides in America. 

" The two great mountain ranges of California, the 
Sierras and the Coast Range, which extend the length 
of the eastern and western borders of the State, meet 
at the north, and the Siskiyou Mountains extend 
laterall}' along the northern line, forming a natural 
barrier between California and Oregon. 

" This is a wild and picturesque country. Ice- 
carved canyons, glaciers living and dead, frost-riven 
pinnacles, spires of granite and cliffs of basalt, beds 
of lava and caves of ice, sounding waterfalls and 
silent lakes, grand pine palisades and beetling cliffs 
— scenery at once grand, varied, solitary and sub- 
lime. 

"For twenty years, while California was still Mexi- 
can territory, the streams in the northern part of the 
State and of the great Sacramento Valley were con- 
stantly visited by trappers; then came the miner 
and later the stockman, who found as much wcilth 
in the grass that fattened his stock for market as 
did the miner in the gold, which in some places was 
said to exist from the "grass roots " down. 

"The daily stage was for many 5'ears the only com- 
munication between this mountainous country and 
the outside world. Children were bom and became 
men who had never heard the whistle of the loco- 
motive. The tremendous mountain ranges seem- 
ingly presented unsurmountable obstacles to even 
the most skillful engineer. But time, money, 
patience and human ingenuity are great factors in 
the success of any undertaking. Piece bv piece the 
iron horse nibbled away at both ends of the route, 
until at last the Oregon and California on the north, 
and the Southern Pacific Company on the south, 
had each reached the base of the Siskiyou Moun- 
tains in their respective States. The latter com- 
pany then undertook and carried to a successful 
termination the work of connecting the two roads, 
and the once long journey of many days can now be 
made through by daylight." 

Mount Shasta is fourteen thousand four 
hundred and forty feet in height. Passing as 
we did within sight of its snow-crowned dome 
for the greater portion of Monday's daylight, 
it became very familiar to us; though, when 
the figures were given to us from time to time, 
we found it impossible to realize that it was so 
far away ; for forty miles seemed to the vision 



hardly more than four. At Shasta Springs 
we alighted and drank the waters, and then 
again pressed on. From Minneapolis to 
BanfT, and so on until we left the Canadian 
frontier, two dining cars had formed part of 
our train. So in them, or in hotels of the 
highest grade, we were well supplied with an 
abundance of good things to eat. But on 
Monday we had to depend on eating stations. 
We fared sufficiently well. 

It is said that when we reached San Fran- 
cisco we were just thirty seconds behind our 
scheduled time. At any rate a well-con- 
tented party was that which on Tuesday 
morning steamed along on a great ferryboat 
upon the waters of a magnificent bay well 
nigh closed by the Golden Gate. Mr. Cooke 
had been our conductor. With so large a 
train, his had been no easy task. It was 
necessary that he should be alert and watch- 
ful by day and by night. And he was. We 
were grateful to him and appreciative of his 
good work. Once landed, we were soon at 
the Palace Hotel, where most of the party, 
including all from Philadelphia, found satis- 
factory lodgment. 

We hope to have more to say concerning 
our stay in California and our homeward 
journey in subsequent issues of the Parish 
Messenger. 

We now merely append an extract from a 
letter entitled "On the Eve of the Conven- 
tion," printed in the Church Standard, with 
the initials W. B. B.: 

"To most of those who are here in attendance upon 
the Convention the journey across the continent 
has been made for the first time. So there has been 
much of marvel as well as surprise. How magnifi- 
cent the scenery, surpassing all expectations! How 
great the distances, impressing the thought, 'how 
immense is this land of ours ! ' And what wonder- 
ful cities some of these Western cities are! Of 
course, men are saying, we expected that they 
would be full of enterprise and vigor, but we did 
not expect to see them solidly built of enduring 
material with great business blocks that would be 
creditable to any city on the earth I 

"And now that we are in San Francisco two 
thoughts find strongest lodgment: first, that the 
Pacific Coast is vastlv farther along in those material 



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OUR TRIP TO CALIFORNIA. 



things that help to make vip a great and advancing 
civiHzation than the Atlantic Coast was a century 
ago — indeed farther along in many wa^-s than the 
Atlantic Coast was half a century ago. This is a 
good place in which to read Josiah Strong's little 
book on "Expansion." Bishop Berkeley's cry of 
"Westward the course of empire" keeps ringing in 
one's ears. Our Atlantic cities are great, but our 
Pacific cities are to be still greater. There is a land 
of roses hero, of brightness and of joy, a land where 
high hills hop with gladness, and valleys laugh and 
sing. But, most of all, men are here, and women, 
and little children, with good heredit}- and marvel- 
ous environment making for push and progress. 

Second, the Church has here a mighty field. "A 
great and effectual door is opened to me," wrote St. 



Paul, "and there are many adversaries." One of 
the first remarks heard by the writer after reaching 
San Francisco was this, uttered by a man of high 
intelligence and culture, "Well, I have been in hell." 
His reference was to the sights he had seen the night 
before, under the guidance of a detective. The 
kingdom of evil is here in vast and tremendous 
power. The kingdom of righteousness, and peace, 
and joy in the Holy Ghost ought to be here in still 
greater power. Our best men should be here, work- 
ing for Christ and the Church, and prayers should 
daily go tip on their behalf, whilst the word of en- 
treaty and command should cry: 

" Strike, let every nerve and sinew 
Tell on ages, tell for God." 



OUR STAY IN CALIFORNIA. 



So far as tlieir addresses were known, the 
December number of the Parish Messenger, 
telling of "Our Trip to California," was sent 
to all the members of the special "Raymond 
& Whitcomb" party who crossed the conti- 
nent under extraordinarily favorable condi- 
tions. Quite a number of letters have been 
received in acknowledgment, of which the 
following may be regarded as a good specimen : 

"I thank you ever so much for the copy of )-our 
Parish Messenger which I have received. The 
account of our journey westward is extremely 
interesting, and the pictures of the mountains, etc. 
bring delightful memories. I suppose no company 
of people ever had a more happy journey than ours 
was on our way to the convention in San Francisco, 
and I doubt if we ever have anything like it again 
in this world, for novelty and delightful companion- 
ship. Since I came I have felt really rebuked and 
humiliated to think how low an opinion I had 
always held of our great West. I have crossed the 
Atlantic as often as I cotild, but I had never had any 
desire to cross the continent before. One must see 
for one's self to know what a great and wonderful 
country our Fatherland is." 

Yes, indeed. " One must see for oneself to 
know," but it makes a good deal of difference 



just how one sees to know. Here is the story 
of another experience, told in another Mes- 
sciii^cr published elsewhere : 

" First, there was the going from Chicago in one 
of the two special cars arranged by the Burlington 
road. These cars were sidetracked at Denver for half 
a day, Manitou Springs from 5. p.m. till loa. m.,and 
at Salt Lake City from 1 1 a. m. on Sunday till noon 
of Monday, giving the opportunity which the fifty 
occupants gladly embraced, not only for exercise, 
but for enjoying the sights, visiting friends, and 
— what we shall all remember — getting a hotel 
dinner. (It may be philanthropic here to interject 
the warning that you can't believe all you hear or 
read from railroad sources about the ample and 
palatial accommodations of dining-cars, the perfect 
service therein, and all that, when excursions are 
running. A dining-car seating thirty was expected 
to feed 200 people three times a day, and meantime 
drop off and feed an equal number on a following 
section of the same train, from Denver to San 
Francisco! Similar accommodations were provided 
on the northern routes!)" 

Just the full extent of our obligations to the 
Raymond & Whitcomb Company we may 
never know. We certainly fared exceedingly 
well, and our experience was most satisfac- 
tory. We are still enthusiastic about it. 



OUR TRIP TO CALIFORNIA. 



39 



As to the Convention itself, it is not our pur- 
pose to write at length. It began its work on 
Wednesday, October 2, and ended it on Thurs- 
day, October 17. For most of the time there 
were not only morning and afternoon sessions, 
but evening sessions also. These evening ses- 
sions were given up to the consideration of the 
great work of Missions. They were well 
attended, and were certainly useful. The 
debates of the Convention were, in the main, 
on a high plane for clearness of statement 
and oratorical power. And the conclusions 
reached were, as it seems to us, on the whole, 
wise. The great good of the Convention 
came from the daily association of friends and 
brethren from every part of our broad land. 
That could hardly fail to make for an increase 
of faith and charity. Clergymen and laymen 
divided in many matters of opinion were led to 
respect and trust each other. That surely is a 
gain. 

The ladies of the Rector's party had time 
for shopping and no little sight-seeing, but 
such was not his privilege. The only time he 
accompanied them was on a Saturday after- 
noon drive through Golden Gate Park. No 
wonder that the San Franciscans are proud of 
their achievements in bringing this remark- 
able park so near perfection. One of the 
guide-books says of this : 

"The Park, including the 'Panhandle,' is over 
four miles long. When it was provided for by Leg- 
islative act in 1S70, there was little on the site to 
suggest a park. For the most part it consisted 
of barren sand dunes, such as now can be seen on 
either side of it. The wind was constantly changing 
these sand ridges, but the lupin was planted by tens 
of thousands, and a special grass, which thrives in 
the sand, was imported, and thus the shifting of 
the sand was stayed. Then drives were laid out and 
macadamized, trees, shrubs and flowers planted, 
lawns laid down, and now, after but thirty years, 
the sand dunes have become a park whose rare 
beauty is the astonishment of all visitors, and 
whose fame has gone into every land. Seldom has 
the world seen a greater triumph of the energy of 
man over the inhospitalities of nature." 

San Francisco itself is a great city and sure 
to become greater. Some of its residences are 
palatial. Many of its business blocks are 



solid and imposing. The sunshine is there 
and the flowers. Push and energy abound. 
Material prosperity is assured. Would that 
spiritual prosperity were equally evident or 
sure of coming soon ! 

The Rector felt it to be his duty to remain 
until the very last moment in attendance upon 
the sessions of the Convention. This he ac- 
cordingly did. But the ladies were not thus 
bound. So, on Monday, October 14, they 
packed their trunks and took their onward 
way to Los Angeles, stopping at Monterey and 
Santa Barbara. They were already familiar 
with the good management of the Southern 
Pacific R. R.. having experienced its com- 
forts along the wonderful Mount Shasta route 
from Portland to San Francisco. This great 
railroad has two lines to Monterey, one popu- 
larly known as the broad gauge and the other 
as the narrow gauge. The broad gauge is the 
direct line. Being both "broad gauge" and 
"direct," the ladies appropriately took that 
route. The Rector followed on Friday by the 
narrow gauge. That suited him best chiefly 
by reason of one consideration. A deputy 
from the Diocese of Los Angeles, Mr. J. Bake- 
well Phillips, formerly of Pittsburg, had in- 
vited a company of friends, some of them 
amongst the most prominent of the Bishops 
and Clerical and Lay Deputies attending the 
Convention, to make the trip with him to Los 
Angeles, stopping among other places at the 
"Big Trees," near Santa Cruz. The earlier 
portion of this itinerary suited exactly. So 
an invitation to become one of many pilgrims 
was gladly accepted, with the underlying 
thought "If the railway is narrow gauge, the 
big trees will be broad enough to more than 
make up for that." We had luncheon on the 
grounds where these trees lift up their giant 
trunks to heaven, and wandered there some 
two or three hours. But the truth is these 
trees did not look so large as we had supposed 
they would look. They are in a grove; so one 
gets only a nearby view of them. And they 
are so well proportioned that one needs to be 
told in figures of their immense height before 
he realizes how great they are. It took nine- 



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teen of our party, with outstretched arms, to 
reach round the largest of them. Of some we 
are told that they are three hundred feet high 
and thirty feet in diameter, and it is added: 
"Here is one with door and windows cut 
through its walls to the great hollow within, 
where in early days a family lived and a child 
was born." These "big trees " are well worth 
seeing. They are among the wonders of the 
Great West. Nevertheless, many other things 
leave a greater impression. 

Let the whole truth be told, however. The 
trees which we saw belong to the variety 
known as "Sequoia sempervirens." The big- 
gest trees of all are classed as " Sequoia gigan- 
tea " Thej^ are bigger, but after all not so 
much bigger. The tallest Sequoia yet meas- 
ured is 405 feet high; the greatest base cir- 
cumference of known specimens is no feet; 
the estimated age is about eight thousand 
years. 

Our itinerary as planned led us not on to 
Santa Cruz near at hand, but back to San 
Jose. There we took the train for Del Monte 
after a glimpse of San Jose, which we found to 
be a very attractive town. "Del Monte," so 
we had been told, "is the great show place of 
California." We found it to be such, and 
were sorry that we could not linger there. 
Del Monte is the station just before Monterey. 
There we left the train after night had fallen 
and were soon enjoying supper. Wherever 
we went in Southern California we found 
friends whom we had met at the Convention 
in San Francisco. So at this big Del Monte 
hotel. They kept us a little while from sleep, 
but not for long. In the morning some of us 
were up bright and early for a walk through 
the hotel grounds which are in their way so 
very wonderful. Listen for a moment to the 
story of "Del Monte:" 

" The landed domain which the Pacific Improve- 
ment Company has made contributory to the 
Hotel del Monte includes the one hundred and 
twenty-six cultivated acres constituting the hotel 
grounds, nearly the whole of the peninsula of 
Monterey, and an immense region stretching south- 
ward and embracing the valley of the Carmel River 



and its great mountain watershed. The hotel 
grounds are level, and besides the exquisite flower 
garden and lawns are the ancient natural features 
preserved in their original integrity — vast spreading 
live-oaks and towering pines. The singular con- 
trast between these two majestic arboreal types 
exercises a peculiar charm for the trained observer 
and lover of nature. The live-oaks are of the kind 
peculiar to California — an immense turtle-backed 
upper contour, forming a compact canopy over a 
sturdy bole from which radiate fantastically fash- 
ioned branches, mostly horizontal. The whole 
effect is one of imposing massiveness and superb 
strength in repose. 

' ■ In very sharp contrast to these wild and untama- 
ble natural features are the dainty flower beds, in 
infinite variety of form, color, composition and 
texture — seemingly too fine and artistic to be 
the work of mere skilled human hands, and sug- 
gesting the ingenuity and taste of fairies. Here 
flowers from all parts of the world unfold their color 
and fragrance every day the year round, reveling 
in a climate more generous than that of the country 
which gave them birth. Here also is the 'Arizona 
Garden,' a gathering of outlandish cacti from the 
arid Southwest. A maze, walks and lanes com- 
plete one of the noblest gardens in the world." 

After breakfast on Saturday morning we 
took the famous "seventeen mile drive." 
The we this time means the Rev. Dr. Anstice 
and Mrs. Anstice, of Philadelphia; the Rector 
and our driver. The day was glorious and 
everything seemed to favor our enjoyment. 
Through Monterey we went, and past Pacific 
Grove, along the mighty ocean, then on to 
Carmel Bay and so through the winding 
forests, looking now at some pines belonging 
to a species which are found nowhere else in 
the world, and then at wonderful cypresses 
"a thousand years old when the Wise Men of 
the East beheld the Star of Bethlehem," and 
still again at the Sea Lion Rookeries, and the 
animals so numerous and so interesting. 

Saturday evening — somewhere near eleven 
o'clock — found us at Santa Barbara, a charm- 
ing spot known for its beauty throughout the 
earth. We were told at the Arlington Hotel 
that Dr. E. H. Williams, so long one of our 
Vestrymen, spent seventeen winters at that 
hotel. The old Mission Church at Santa Bar- 
bara is the best preserved of any of the twenty- 
one Spanish Missions, the first of which were 




Rt. Rev. Phillips Brooks, D. D., 
For many years a Philadeiphia Rector. 




The Rt. Rev. Ozi W« Whitaker, D, D., 
Fifth Bibhop of Pennsylvania. 



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founded by the Franciscans before the orig- 
inal Thirteen Colonies on our Eastern sea- 
board declared that they were free and inde- 
pendent States. The worship there is still 
solemn and impressive. 

In this connection here is an interesting ex- 
tract from one of our little guide-books : 

"The end of the Franciscan dynasty came suddenly 
with the secularization of the mission property by 
the Mexican government to replete the exhausted 
treasuries of Santa Ana. Sadly the fathers for- 
sook the scene of their long labors, and silently 
the Indians melted away into the wilderness and 
the darkness of their natural ways, save such as 
had intermarried with the families of Spanish 
soldiers and colonists. The churches are now, for 
the most part, only decayed legacies and frag- 
mentary reminders of a time whose like the world 
will never know again. Save only three or four, 
preserved by reverent hands, where modem wor- 
shipers, denationalized and clad in American dress, 
still kneel and recite their orisons, the venerable 
ruins are forsaken by all e.xccpt the tourist and the 
antiquarian, and their bells are silent forever. 
One cannot but feel the pity of it, for in the history 
of zealous servants of the cross there is hardly a more 
noteworthy name than that of Junipero Serra, and 
in the annals of their heroic endeavor there is no 
more signal instance of absolute failure than his 
who founded the California missions, aside from the 
perpetuation of his saintly name. They accom- 
plished nothing so far as can now be seen. The 
■descendants of their converts, what few have sur- 
vived contact with the Anglo-Saxon, have no 
discoverable worth, and, together with the greater 
part of the original Spanish population, have faded 
away, as if a blight had fallen upon them. 

" But so long as one stone remains upon another, 
and a single arch of the missions still stands, an 
atmosphere will abide there, something that does 
not come from mountain, or vale, or sea, or sky; 
the spirit of consecration, it may be; but if it is only 
the aroma of ancient and romantic associations, 
the suggestion of a peculiar phase of earnest and 
simple human life and quaint environment that is 
forever past, the mission-ruins must remain among 
the most interesting monuments in all our varied 
land, and will amply repay the inconsiderable effort 
and outlay required to enable the tourist to view 
them. 

"San Diego, the oldest; San Luis Rey, the most 
poetically environed; San Juan Capistrano, of 
most tragic memory; San Gabriel, the most 
imposing, and Santa Barbara, the most perfectly 
preserved, will suffice the casual sightseer." 



On the morning of Sunday, October 20, the 
Rector preached in Trinity Church, Santa 
Barbara. He really did not wish to "tune his 
lyre" for that occasion. Indeed, as one 
who preaches both winter and summer, he 
wished during his journeyings to keep as far 
away from a pulpit as was possible. But the 
Bishops at the hotel were of a mind to say " I 
pray thee have me excused," and his help 
seemed to be actually needed ; so it was cheer- 
fully given. 

Being anxious to rejoin his family at Los 
Angeles, he did not linger long enough to take 
the noted mountain drive; but the ladies 
of his party, who did take it, are still enthusi- 
astic in its praise. They tell of the hermit's 
hut, and views o'er hill and dale and ocean, 
and monks duly habited quietly picking 
grapes from great spreading vines, and 
Eaton's ranch, and the culture of guava 
berries, and limes, and English walnuts and 
pomegranates, of oranges and lemons and 
bananas, and figs and dates and olives. 
Surely they saw a great deal in one after- 
noon's drive. 

Piieblo de la Rcina de los Angeles (the town 
of the Queen of the Angels), so named in 1781, 
is a most attractive and prosperous city. 
The U. S. Census gave it in 1880 a population 
of 11,183; in 1890 a population of 50,395, and 
in 1900 a population of 102,479. That means 
almost unparalleled growth and progress, 
even for Uncle Sam's dominion. At his first 
visit in 1855 Bishop Kip wrote: "Los An- 
geles has all the characteristics of an old 
Spanish town. It contains about five thou- 
sand inhabitants, two thousand of whom may 
be Americans or English. The houses are 
almost invariably one story high — a style of 
building which an occasional earthquake has 
rendered advisable. All around is a perfect 
garden, luxuriant with every kind of fruit." 

In 1859 Dr. George F. Pierce, Bishop of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church South, wrote: 
"Now we came upon a scene of enchantment 
— Los Angeles. Contrast lent its aid, doubt- 
less, but this is really a charming town. The 
beautiful stream which meanders by it, fur- 



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nishing irrigation to the vineyards and gar- 
dens, the tasteful residences, the hedges of 
willow, the life and stir and obvious thrift of 
the place, all conspire to invest it with inter- 
est. To us it was like a magical creation. 
Aladdin's lamp could hardly have conjured up 
a brighter, more unexpected scene. It is an 
old place, revised, enlarged, modernized. 
Spain has left her footprints, but young 
America will soon have left no vestige of her 
presence except the grapevine. This will be 
spared for its own sake. Here is the Eschol 
of America." As to the Los Angeles of to-day 
another has written and not overdrawn the 
picture : 

" Surrounded by hundreds of cultivated farms, 
whose varied products form the basis of its phenome- 
nal activity and prosperity, it is a really great city. 
It is well paved, well lighted, and abundantly 
served by intramural railways. It has parks of 
extraordinary beauty, and avenues shaded by the 
eucalyptus and the pepper, that most esthetic of 
trees. Outside the immediate thoroughfares of 
trade the streets are bordered by attractive homes, 
fronted by grounds set with palm and orange and 
cypress, and blooming with flowers throughout the 
year. It is backed by the mountains that are 
always present in a California landscape, and fifteen 
miles away lies a vista of the sea, dotted with island- 
peaks." 

Pasadena is near to Los Angeles — only 
seven miles away — and Mount Lowe, and Red- 
lands, and Riverside are close by, and San 
Bernardino, and Santa Monica by the sea. 
So there were many things to look at, and we 
saw them almost to the full. Let it be said, 
however, in fairness, that the dry season was 
"on" when we were in Southern California, 
and that the dust lessened our pleasure not a 
little. The rain comes with November and 
ends with June. March is said to be a glori- 
ous month in this land of fruits and flowers. 
In October the orange trees and all other 
trees look, like some boys and men, as though 
a good washing would improve them ; and the 
dust is not attractive. Driving around Red- 
lands and Riverside, however, we noticed 
that the roads had been sprinkled with crude 



petroleum. This need not be done very fre- 
quently, so we were told. It has been fotmd 
to be effective. 

The unique trip in the region round about 
Los Angeles is that to Santa Catalina Island. 
This is a trip of which any one might well say, 
"I wouldn't have missed it for anything." 
The traveler leaves by rail for San Pedro in 
the morning, and returns in time for evening 
dinner. San Pedro is the new harbor of the 
port of Los Angeles, and there the steamboat 
is taken for the journey to the famous island 
which looms up, like Capri, about twenty-five 
miles away. The journey is uneventful ex- 
cept for a possible seasickness which is said to 
be not uncommon. Avalon is reached in 
about two hours, where a satisfactory lunch- 
eon can be had. Then comes a wonder of 
wonders, which has been thus described. 
The scene pictured is of the sea aquarium or 
marine garden alongside Sugar Loaf Rock at 
Avalon : 

" How often, in looking over the blue waters of 
the ocean, we wonder at the mysterious life of its 
depths, and imagine the strange creatures which 
dwell there. Poets have described their fancies of 
it, scientists have written down in their exact lan- 
guage its characteristics, but what a revelation to 
see it for one's self! The glass-bottom boats are 
unique in California, I believe, although but an 
adaptation of the inarine obsen.'ation-glass which has 
long been in use. From these boats it is possible to 
look down into the water to the depth of from fifty 
to one hundred feet and observe the life as clearly 
as we look about us on land. Rowing over the 
kelp beds, the observer is suddenly transported into 
a wonder world which surpasses his most fantastic 
dreams. Great trees loom up out of the gloom and 
spread their broad corrugated leaves of amber in the 
bright sunlight. They wave and sway with the gentle 
motion of the water, and in and out swim the fish, 
now darting into the shadow of the kelp and again 
flashing in the sunlight. Schools of little fish glide 
with lithe motions back and forth. The golden 
perch glistens in its radiant armor. Now and then 
the iridescence of a little rainbow fish shimmers in 
the sun ray. The boat floats over flower beds of red, 
green and blue seaweed, and over rocks which are 
alive with the strange creatures of the deep — spiny 
sea urchins, sprawling starfish, floating jellyfish, and 
those interesting low marine creatures, timicates. 
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on the boat's side, but we are looking into another 
world with the same curiosity and awe that the 
inhabitants of Mars might look into ours. It is 
a fascinating, never-to-be-forgotten scene." 

As to Pasadena a New York friend of the 
Rector, who is one of the most intelHgent of 
men and also one who has traveled in Europe, 
Asia and Africa, as well as America, writes: 
" I remember Pasadena as the most beautiful 
town I have ever visited — not excepting the 
Riviera. We saw it in the full bloom of the 
roses." As to Santa Monica, enough to say- 
that we looked there amid beautiful surround- 
ings at the sun first touching the waters of the 
Pacific and then sinking in the glowing West. 
Our day at Redlands and Riverside lingers in 
the memory with associations of joy and 
beauty. Smiley Heights and Magnolia ave- 
nue! What recollections crowd upon us as 
we read these names! Our eyes run over 
the pages of some small volume telling of the 
Calla lilies and the geranium bushes ten feet 
high, and heliotrope covering the side of a 
house, and giant bananas and mammoth 
palms, and roses in a thousand varieties, seen 
along the wide streets of Los Angeles, and we 
say "Southern California is a land of beau- 
teous wonders." But the one most wonder- 
ful thing, after all, was "The Sea Gardens of 
Catalina." 

Concerning these Evaleen Stein has written 
a little poem, with which we close our story 
now, hoping to tell the remainder in the next 
issue of the Messenger: 

Lightly let the boat go drifting, 
Neither hand nor oar uphfting. 
Let no motion fret the ocean, and no sail be now 
unfurled; 
Stranger than Aladdin's story, 
Lo, the dream-surpa,ssing glory 
And the marvel unimagined of the limpid under 
world I 



Gaze within the magic mirror 
Of the water, crystal clearer 
Than the gleaming glass enchanted made by Mer- 
lin's sorcery; 
And behold the secrets hidden 
Through the ages, till unbidden 
Sons of men came sailing, sailing down the blue 
Pacific Sea. 

See the pearl-encrusted portals 
Of the caverns, wherein mortals 
Dare not pierce with earthly vision, dare not fare 
with feet profane; 
Coral-columned halls with golden 
Thrones in emerald deep withholden 
Lit with sparkling amber splendor, where the merry 
mermen reign. 

See the long kelp banners flying 

From their gardens underlying 
All the rare transparent surface of this sunny 
Southern sea; 

Grasses, shot with silver spangles. 

Wreathed and caught in stany tangles 
Of the purple ocean-pansy and the fringed anemone. 

And the brilliant sea- weeds scattered 
Like a gay mosaic shattered 
In a million shining fragments over all the ocean 
floor; 
While the bright-hued fish go darting, 
In swift journeys, meeting, parting, 
Weaving gold and scarlet patterns through the 
water evermore. 

Through the light that throbs and quivers 
Down the depths, and breaks and shivers 
Into splintered flakes of brightness, that so melt and 
interfuse 
Into all such strangest ranges 
Of translucent color changes. 
That the eye is thrilled, bewildered, with their rare 
enchanting hues. 

Ah, would thus upon the gleaming 
Southern Sea, in happy dreaming, 
We might drift and drift forever! never shoreward 
guide the keel I 
Azure skies, forever smiling. 
Into visions sweet beguiling. 
And beneath our boat the splendor of those rosy 
dreams made real. 



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OUR HOMEWARD JOURNEY. 



The members of the party with which we 
traveled to San Francisco, in such happy 
fashion with one of the best of the " Raymond 
& Whitcomb" conductors, did not all return 
by the same route, nor at the same time. 
Nearly all took in the beauties of Southern 
California, and some saw the glories of the 
Yosemite, but some, from the City of the 
Golden Gate, made "straight for home." 
Buying our tickets through the Raymond & 
Whitcomb Company, we were free to return 
either with a conductor at a date specified, or 
to journey alone, at our own chosen time. The 
larger number returned under the charge of 
a conductor through Salt Lake City, Eagle 
River Canyon, over the Tennessee Pass, and 
through the Ro}-al Gorge, and so on through 
ilanitou and Denver, to their homes. Our 
choice, made before leaving Philadelphia, was 
the " Santa Fe " route. Happily we could not 
have chosen more wisely. 

We left Los Angeles on Friday evening, 
October 25th, and on Saturday took breakfast 
at "The Needles," luncheon at "Peach 
Springs," and dinner at "Ash Fork." At 
Williams we left the main line of the Sante Fe 
R. R., making close connections by a branch 
road for the object of our quest, the Grand 
Canyon in Arizona, one of the wonders of the 
world. A little delay came to us, so that we 
did not reach the place of our destination until 
nearly eleven o'clock. We had written for 
" accommodations," they had been definitely 
promised to us, but the little hotel was full 
of lingerers who possibly should have torn 
themselves away. Forgiveness was theirs, 
however, when it was found that there were 
bishops and other clergy among them, and 
when some of the marvels of the Canyon 
scenery were disclosed; meanwhile "lodgings" 
were provided in a Pullman car. 

The next morning the Rector rose early, 
walked a short distance from the railroad 



track to the rim of the canyon, and soon came 
back in a glow of enthusiasm, declaring "The 
half has not been told; this is indeed a wonder 
of wonders." 

Just a word here by waj' of explanation. It 
is well given in the language of Captain Clar- 
ence E. Button: 

"The name, the Grand Canyon, has been repeat- 
edly infringed for purposes of advertisement. The 
Canyon of the Yellowstone has been called 'The 
Grand Canyon.' A more flagrant piracy is the 
naming of the gorge of the Arkansas River in Colo- 
rado 'The Grand Canyon of Colorado,' and many 
persons who have visited it have been persuaded 
that they have seen the great chasm. These river 
valleys are certainly verj- pleasing and picturesque, 
but there is no more comparison between them 
and the mighty chasm of the Colorado River than 
there is between the Alleghanies or Trosachs and 
the Himalayas." 

Here is a good place to bring in some of the 
descriptive words of other men ; we copy them 
from a most interesting volume, "In and 
Around the Grand Canyon," by George Whar- 
ton James, published A. D. 1901, by Little, 
Brown & Co., of Boston. The first is from 
Charles Dudley Warner: 

"Tired as we were, we could not wait. It was 
only to ascend the little steep stony slope, — three 
hundred yards — and we should see! Our party 
were straggling up the hill: two or three had reached 
the edge. I looked up. The duchess threw up her 
hands and screamed; we were not fifteen paces 
behind, but we saw nothing. We took the few steps, 
and the whole magnificence broke upon us. No 
one could be prepared for it. The scene is one 
to strike dumb with awe, or to unstring the nerves; 
one might stand in silent astonishment, another 
would burst into tears. 

"There are some experiences that cannot be 
repeated — one's first view of Rome, one's first 
view of Jerusalem. But these emotions are pro- 
duced by association, by the sudden standing face 
to face with the scenes most wrought into our 
whole life and education by tradition and religion. 
This was without association, as it was without par- 
allel It was a shock so novel that the mind, dazed. 




The Right Rev. Thomas M. Clark, D. D„ LL, D. 

Bishop of Rhode Island and Presidinj; Bishop. 
Once a Philadelphia Rector. 





m 




Rt. Rev. Henry C Potter, D, D., LL. D., 

Bishop of New York. 
Whose earl> life was spent in Philadelphia. 



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quite failed to comprehend it. All that we could 
grasp was a vast confusion of amphitheatres and 
strange architectural forms resplendent with color. 
The vastness of the view amazed us quite as much 
as its transcendent beauty. We had expected a 
Canyon — two lines of perpendicular walls six 
thousand feet high, with the ribbon of a river 
at the bottom; but the reader may dismiss all his 
notions of a Canyon, indeed, of any sort of mountain 
or gorge scenery with which he is familiar. We 
had come into a new world. What we saw was not 
a Canyon, or a chasm, or a gorge, but a vast area 
which is a break in the plateau. From where we stood 
it was twelve miles across to the opposite wall. 
We looked up and down for twenty to thirty miles 
This great space is filled with gigantic architec- 
tural constructions, with amphitheatres, gorges, 
precipices, walls of masonry, fortresses terraced up 
to the level of the eye, temples mountain size, 
all brilliant with horizontal lines of color — streaks 
of solid hues a few feet in width, streaks a thousand 
feet in width, yellows, mingled white and gray, 
orange, dull red, brown, blue, carmine, green, all 
blending in the sunlight into one transcendent 
suffusion of splendor. Afar off we saw the river in 
two places, a mere thread, as motionless and smooth 
as a strip of mirror, only we knew it was a turbid, 
boiling torrent, six thousand feet below us. Di- 
rectly opposite the overhanging ledge on which we 
stood was a mountain, the sloping base of which 
was ashy gray and bluish; it rose in a series of ter- 
races to a thousand feet wall of dark red sand- 
stone, receding upward, with ranges of columns 
and many fantastic scvilptures, to a finial row of 
gigantic opera-glasses six thousand feet abo\'e the 
river. The great San Francisco Mountain, with 
its snowy crater, which we had passed on the way, 
might have been set down in the place of this one, 
and it would have been only one in a multitude 
of such forms that met the eye whichever w-ay we 
looked. Indeed, all the vast mountains in this 
region might be hidden in this Canyon. 

"Wandering a little away from the group and out 
of 'sight, and turning suddenly to the scene from 
another point of view, I experienced for a moment 
an indescribable terror of nature, a confusion of 
mind, a fear to be alone in such a presence. With 
all this grotesqueness and majesty of form and 
radiance of color, creation seemed in a whirl. With 
our education in scenery of a totally different kind, 
I suppose it would need long acquaintance with this 
to familiarize one with it to the extent of perfect 
mental comprehension." 

The second is from Harrison Gray Otis : 

"Suddenly the awful majesty of the Grand 
Canvon is revealed to his startled vision. There 



before him lies the mighty red rift in the earth, 
the most stupendous gorge within the knowledge 
of man. The mind is spellbound by the spec- 
tacle; the voice is silent; the heart is subdued; the 
soul turns in profound reverence to the Almighty, 
whose handiwork is here seen on a colossal scale. 
No matter how many descriptions of the Grand 
Canyon may have been previously read by him 
who sees it for the first time, its profound depths, 
its colossal heights, its myriad and matchless colors, 
its brilliant hues, its striking-lights and shades, 
its mighty sinuosities, and its altogether grand en- 
semble will fill the beholder with a mingled sense 
of awe, wonder, admiration, and reverence. * * * 
"Here is a mighty opening in the earth, whose 
capacity in cubic feet must be measured by some 
mathematician not yet bom upon the earth, for the 
man does not live who can make the figures. Im- 
agine, if you can, all the armies of all the nations 
of the earth, marching in solid columns from op- 
posite sides of this appalling gorge to meet each 
other in battle array, unconscious of the existence 
of this spot until too late to save themselves from 
being swallowed up in its abysmal depths; imagine 
all these vast bodies of men, with all the guns, all 
the horses — infantry, cavalry, artillery, sappers, 
miners, and pontoniers — all the transportation 
trains, and all the impedimenta of an army, together 
with all the buildings of all the cities of the world 
— imagine all this vast aggregation of men and 
material thrown into this immeasurable abyss, 
and the Grand Canyon would still remain unfilled 
for its entire length, and the Colorado River would 
continue to flow unintercepted on its reckless course 
to the sea. In its measureless, crttel, insatiable 
maw, all would be swallowed up." 

The third is from J. C. Martin: 

" No poet's tale of joy or sorrow, love or death, 
casts its witchery over the picture; these silent 
mountain peaks and deep impenetrable canj'ons 
are associated with no heroic action, no sublime 
despair. The Canyon stands out before you in 
its simple majesty; its wonderful beauty, vast 
dimensions, and untold ancientness appealing only to 
your aesthetic sense All the colors of the rainbow 
combine to make a panoramic picture, fifty miles 
long, of vast forms, in which all known styles of 
human architecture are blended in profuse and 
chaotic magnificence — Ionic, Corinthian, and Doric 
pillars, a wilderness of pyramids, towers, and 
temples, pinnacles, spires, domes and Egyptian 
obelisks — a chaos of rock in all conceivable shapes. 

"Its chaotic immensity utterly bewilders the 
senses, and fills the soul to overflowing with awe 
and admiration for the marvellous achievements 



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of the God of Nature. Its matchless sublimity, 
divine grandeur, infinite beauty, are far beyond the 
comprehension of the finite mind. Man's capacities 
are too hmited to fully grasp and appreciate what 
is here unveiled. The man of letters is appalled 
as he gazes down into its depths. The artist re- 
lapses into despair as he views the numberless 
cliffs, pinnacles, spires, domes, obelisks, pagodas, 
and measureless amphitheatres, with all their 
wealth of coloring, the secret of whose blending 
is known only to the Creator. The geologist is 
amazed and delighted as he contemplates his 
surroundings, and he sees how the Stone Book of 
Nature has been opened for his delectation. 

"Never before has he been permitted to gaze on 
so much of the physical geology of the earth at one 
glance. Nowhere else can he find such an elaborate 
and exhaustive treatise on dynamics as in the Grand 
Canyon of the Colorado. More than six thousand 
feet of sedimentary formations are plainly visible 
at a single glance, representing periods of geological 
time that utterly defy mathematical calculation 
or human conception." 

The fourth is from C. A. Higgins: 

"An inferno, swathed in soft celestial fires; a 
whole chaotic under-world, just emptied of primeval 
floods and waiting for a new creative word; a 
boding, terrible thing, unflinchingly real, yet 
spectral as a dream, eluding all sense of perspective 
or dimension, outstretching the faculty of measure- 
ment, overlapping the confines of definite ap- 
prehension. The beholder is at first unimpressed 
by any detail; he is overwhelmed by the ensemble 
of a stupendous panorama, a thousand square 
miles in extent, that lies wholly beneath the 
eye, as if he stood upon a mountain peak in- 
stead of the level brink of a fearful chasm 
in the plateau whose opposite shore is thirteen 
miles away. A labyrinth of huge architectural 
forms, endlessly varied in design, fretted with 
ornamental devices, festooned with lace-like webs 
formed of talus from the upper cliffs and painted 
with every color known to the palette in pure trans- 
parent tones of marvelous delicacy. Never was 
picture more harmonious, never flower more ex- 
qtiisitely beautiful. It flashes instant communi- 
cation of all that architecture and painting and 
music for a thousand years have gropingh' striven 
to express. It is the soul of Michael Angclo and of 
Beethoven." 

One of the chapters in the book to which 
we have just referred is entitled "Religious and 
Other Impressions in the Grand Canyon." 
From this one extract must be made. 



"As one listens to the teachings of the geologists 
in regard to the fonnation of the Canyon, the mil- 
lions and millions of years that undoubtedly have 
elapsed since its foundations were laid, the mil- 
lions that have rolled away to allow ten thousand 
feet of non-conformable strata to be deposited, 
elevated, tilted, washed away; the depression 
of the Canyon surface again for the depositing 
of Devonian, Lower Carboniferous, Upper Carbon- 
iferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous; 
the formation of the vast Eoctne Lake and its total 
disappearance; the opening of the earth's crust 
and the venting from its angry stomach the foul 
lavas that blacken portions of its area — the mind 
reels and whirls and grows dizzy in a vain attempt 
to comprehend the magnitude of such periods 
of time, and when reason can assert itself it is to feel 
the truth of the Hebrew Apostle's words: 'One day- 
is with the Lord as a thousand years, a thousand 
years as one day.' 

"The 'American style of architecture' is not 
yet bom, yet I am satisfied the time and the master 
architect will come, And when he does come, 
it is in this Grand Canyon that he will gain his 
inspiration. From the varied, marvelous, and 
sublime of the thousands of miles of canyon, a sj-s- 
tem of architecture will be created quite as original 
and national as Persia and Egypt borrowed from 
their sandstone ledges, or the inhabitants of the 
North of Europe found in the primeval forests of 
the fir and pine. 

"Then who can gaze upon this weird and won- 
drous beauty and not feel that God must love beauty 
for its own sake? The idea that everything is 
formed solely as a background upon which to dis- 
play the development of man takes powerful 
grasp upon us when we yield ourselves to the per- 
suasive eloquence of Browning, but a voice louder 
and more forceful than the great English master's 
peals forth in one's own soul when he gazes upon 
God's great work here, and he feels instincti\"ely 
that the Almighty God made this glorious grandeur 
centuries of centuries before man ever could sec it in 
order that He, personally, might enjoy its beauty. 

"Just as the garments of Aaron the priest were 
to be made "for glory and for beauty,' so do I think 
this great Canyon was made as a revelation 
to man that God loves to make things solely for 
'Glory and Beauty.' 

"Then its solitude! Ah, w-ho but those who 
know and love the solitude that shuts out the 
fever of life; the fretful nervousness that contact 
with man produces; the rush of busy streets; the 
coldheartedness. selfishness, indifference, and apath> 
to others' woes that one must see in great popula- 
tion centres — who btit he can tell the deli.ght of 
this gracious, healing, restful solitude, where, how- 




The R(. Rev. William Bacon Stevens, ;D. D.. 

Fourth Bishop of Pennsylvania. 




The Rev. William B. Bodine, D. D., 

Rector of the Church of the Saviour. 



OUR TRIP TO CALIFORNIA. 



53 



ever, one is never alone? For there is an abiding 
sense of the brooding presence of the Almighty, all- 
powerful, all-loving, all-merciful, that soothes and 
hushes and quiets the distressed and wounded soul, 
so that a normal equilibrium is gained and strength 
restored to return to one's place, manfully to fight 
one's true battles with the world, the flesh and the 
devil. To ine this Canyon is the Holy of Holies, 
the Inner Temple, where each man inay be his own 
High Priest, open the sacred veil, and stand face to 
face with the Divine. And he who can thus talk 
with God may not show it to his fellows, but he 
knows within himself the new power, calmness, and 
equanimity which he has gained ; and he returns to 
life's struggles, thankful for his glimpses of the 
Divine. 

"And yet what words can tell how utterly in- 
significant man must feel himself to be when he finds 
himself in the depths of this great gorge, solitary and 
alone, and finds not this Divine presence! He 
may be a king on his throne; a despotic ruler in his 
office; a monarch in his store; a tyrant in his work- 
shop; but here he is so dwarfed, made so small, 
that, if he have any soul at all, he is humbled and 
made reverent at this marvelous manifestation of 
superior power, might, and greatness. 

" But it is only to suggest a few of the impressions 
aroused by these scenes that this chapter is inserted 
as a fitting conclusion to my book. 

"I never take a mental view of the great river 
flowing from the high snowy mountains of Utah, 
Wyoming, and Colorado to the great Pacific through 
the Gulf of California, that I do not feel how like to 
man's life it is. Watch it from its soiirce to its 
mouth. It has its rise in the pure white, unsullied 
snow of the mountains, it flows on, gathering strength 
and power as it progresses; it passes through 
Flaming Gorge, where everything is bright and bril- 
liant. There is the excitement of the rapids, and 
the exhilarating feelings that come from dashing 
along at high speed, and the dangers are minified. 
Soon sweet and restful paths are entered, where 
gentle deer browse, and the 'forest aisles are filled 
with the music of birds, and the parks are decked 
with flowers.' 

"Then comes the Canyon of Desolation, with 
everything dreary, desolate, and forsaken. Bixt 
even here the Lighthouse Rock catches the rays of 
the sun and speaks of brightness beyond, which, 
indeed, is reached when farther progress is made, 
and Glen Canyon is entered. Marble Canyon 
with its rapids and dangers is passed, and then the 
waters enter the Granite Gorge of the Grand Canyon. 
Here jagged cruel rocks line the waterway, and 
there are places of deepest gloom where the sun 
never touches the water. Here are great water- 
falls, and then deep cuts through black and for- 



bidding lava. But on and on the water flows, 
enters Black Canyon, and finally emerges into the 
open, peaceful, gentle slopes of the desert, down 
and on, without effort, into the Gulf of California, 
soon to have all its individuality as a river lost 
in the vastness of the great Pacific Ocean. 

"Is not this a perfect type of man's life? He 
begins in the high mountains of innocency and child- 
hood. He progresses through places where every- 
thing is bright and brilliant, and passes in safety 
and exhilaration places in life where others perhaps 
have been wrecked. Then he enters the soothing 
parks and quiet pathways, gaining strength and 
courage for the canyons where rapids must.^ be 
run and disasters risked, and, happily, avoided. 
How joyously he welcomes open places and sunshine 
that follow, and how disgusted with the restraining 
influence of the 'bends' of life, and then how sad 
and forsaken when he is forced into the Canyon 
of Desolation! Friends have forsaken him, loved 
ones gone, perhaps even God seems to have left him 
to himself; but as he looks up, even here he sees the 
sun of grace shining upon the Lighthouse Rocks 
that raise their heads above the Canyon walls, 
and new hope, new faith, new encouragement are 
the result. 

"And alas! he, too, may have to contend with 
' Dirty Devil ' streams flowing into his life, which 
will becloud and befoul the hitherto pure waters. 
But, as in the Colorado River, by and by the 
Bright Angel Creek, with full, clear, pellucid, re- 
freshing and purifying power, enters in 

"And so his life flows on, passing through canyons 
and rapids, dashing by the cruel, hungry granite 
and over dangerous waterfalls; but just as surely 
as the river flows on and enters the great Pacific, 
so will man enter into the unfathomable ocean of the 
heart of God." 

We began our Sundaj^ at the Grand Canyon 
with the reception of the Lord's Supper, or 
Holy Communion. The service was conducted 
by the Bishop of Georgia, in the parlor of the 
Bright Angel Hotel, which is one of the rooms 
of the old log cabin where lived "Buck" 
O'Neil, who, among the "Rough Riders," so 
gallantly dashed up the hill at San Juan, and 
fell in the struggle. Our thoughts, however, 
were not of war, but of peace, that peace 
"which passeth all understanding." Then 
came breakfast, and then the drinking in of 
seme of the glories of the Canyon until even- 
ing. After supper we again gathered in the 
parlor for a service of Evening Prayer, read by 



54 



OUR TRIP TO CALIFORXIA. 



the Rev. John H. Ely, of Cincinnati. It was a 
hearty, stirring and helpful service. The 
benediction was pronounced bv the Bishop of 
Ohio. 

The hotel is on the edge of the rim. It is 
said that the new and greatly enlarged hotel, 
which is soon to be built, if not already in pro- 
cess of construction, is to be placed further 
back among the trees. For those who tarrv 
long at the Canyon, that will be a gain. But 
for us, whose time was limited to three nights 
and two days, the constant presence of scenes 
of grandeur was very welcome. We chatted 
of the glories of God's handiwork and of the 
things of the Kingdom; we walked hither and 
yon, and so the day passed all too quicklv. 
The day at times was a misty one, and that 
helped to bring to us visions of wondrous 
beauty. 

Here is a description of a similar dav: 

"As the sun mounts, the curtain of mist suddenly 
breaks into cloud fleeces, and while you gaze these 
fleeces rise and dissipate, leaving the Canyon bare. 
At once around the bases of the lowest cliffs white 
puffs begin to appear, creating a scene of unparal- 
leled beauty as their dazzling cumuli swell and rise 
and their number multiplies, until once more thev 
overflow the rim. and it is as if you stood upon 
some land's end looking down upon a formless void. 
Then quickly comes the complete dissipation, 
and again the marshaling in the depths, the up- 
ward advance, the total suffusion and the speedv 
vanishing, repeated over and over imtil the wanu 
walls have expelled their saturation. 

"Long may the visitor loiter iipon the rim, 
powerless to shake loose from the charm, tirelessly 
intent upon the silent transformations until the sun 
is low in the West. Then the Canyon sinks into 
mysterious purple shadow, the far Shinamo Altar 
is tipped with a golden ray, and against a leaden 
horizon the long line of the Echo Cliffs reflects a 
soft brilliance of indescribable beautv, a light 
that, elsewhere, surely never was on sea or land. 
Then darkness falls, and should there be a moon, 
the scene in part revives in silver light, a thousand 
spectral forms projected from inscrutable gloom: 
dreams of mountains, as in their sleep they brood 
on things eternal." 

On Sunday afternoon an immense and 
almost inconceivably brilliant rainbow was 
seen over across the mighty chasm. In an 



Eastern State, so far as our knowledge goes, 
no such rainbow has ever appeared. Taken 
alone, it would have been a marvel of mag- 
nificent splendor; with such surroundings it 
was ineffably glorious, indescribably sublime. 

On Monday morning we drove to different 
points along the rim of the Canyon, for differ- 
ing views; and in the afternoon some of us 
walked part way down the Bright Angel 
Trail, and back again. To go all the way 
down and up, on horseback or on foot, requires 
an entire day. Our time seemed too limited 
for that, but others took the time, most of 
them riding, but some of them walking. Two 
of the latter were one of our Bishops and his 
son ; the Bishop came back with the announce- 
ment that he had encountered and killed a 
rattlesnake; he is big enough to have done it, 
he is besides absolutely truthful as well as 
courageous. This same Bishop was ap- 
proached just outside Trinity Church, San 
Francisco, by a policeman who grasped his 
hand, and said to him, "I have never before, 
in my whole life, seen such a fine-looking 
body of men as those attending this Episcopal 
Convention;" and then added, looking down 
and up, along his six feet four inches of stat- 
ure, "I can't help thinking what a magnifi- 
cent man you would have been on the force." 
Some call him "Texas George." One of the 
guides said that he believed his name to be 
"King Solomon." 

Perhaps it ought to be said just here that 
knowledge concerning this Grand Canyon in 
Arizona is of comparatively recent date. The 
Colorado River, which sweeps through it, is 
two thousand miles in length ; the area which 
it drains is simply immense. Portions of the 
Canyon were visited by the Spaniards in 1540, 
but there was then nothing approaching ex- 
ploration. As :\Ir. George Wharton James 
puts it: 

"It was left to the imtiring energy, persistent 
zeal, and scientific instincts of Major J. AV. Powell 
to accomplish the impossible; for Indians, miners, 
prospectors, cowboys, Spanish explorers, and 
United States Government officers were a unit 
in saying that it was a practical impossibility to 




St. Cecilia. 



56 



OUR TRIP TO CALIFORNIA. 



ride down the Colorado River from its source to 
its inouth." 

" On the 24th of May, 1869, the party left Green 
River City, the prows of the boats turned to flow 
with the swift current into the unknown dangers 
and wonders ahead. Three of the boats were of oak 
and one of pine — each divided into compartments, 
some of which were watertight to make the boats 
buoyant. They were loaded with rations deemed 
sufficient to last ten months — clothing, ammu- 
nition, tools, and all necessary scientific instru- 
ments. 

"Major Powell's report is eloquent and vivid, 
and the daily diary of this band of brave explorers 
is as fascinating and thrilling as any work of imagi- 
nation ever written." 

Here is one brief extract : 

"The river is very deep, the Canyon very narrow, 
and still obstructed, so that there is no steady flow 
of the stream; but the waters wheel, and roll, and 
boil, and we are scarcely able to determine where 
we can go. Now, the boat is carried to the right, 
perhaps close to the wall; again she is shot into the 
stream, and perhaps is dragged over to the other 
side, where, caught in a whirlpool, she spins about. 
We can neither land nor run as we please. The 
boats are entirely unmanageable; no order in their 
running can be preserved; now one, now another, 
is ahead, each crew laboring for its own preservation. 
In such a place we come to another rapid. Two 
of the boats run it perforce. One succeeds in land- 
ing, but there is no foothold by which to make a 
portage, and she is pushed out again into the stream. 
The next minute a great reflex wave fills the open 
compartment. She is water-logged, and drifts 
unmanageable. Breaker after breaker runs over 
her, and one capsizes her. The men are thrown out; 
but they cling to the boat, and she drifts down 
some distance, alongside of us, and we are able to 
catch her. She is soon bailed out, and the men are 
aboard once more. 

"One more day, and we come to a beautifully 
clear stream which we name Bright Angel Creek. 
This is nearly opposite the Bright Angel Trail." 



On Tuesday morning, October 29th, we 
reluctantly said good-bye to our wonder of 
wonders. At Williams we caught the "Cali- 
fornia Limited," the favorite train running 
between San Francisco and Chicago. Our 
seats had been reserved, so we were soon 
speeding along in ease and comfort. We 
should have gladly stopped to see the cliff 
dwellings and the petrified forests and other 
wonders along the Santa Fe route, but our 
allotted time was up. We passed Albuquer- 
que in the night, Las Vegas in the early dawn, 
and so moved on toward La Junta; there some 
of our fellow-travellers left us, that they might 
see Colorado Springs, Manitou and Denver, 
but most of us sped on. We reached Chicago 
on the afternoon of Thursday, and Buffalo 
on Friday morning. One of the most inter- 
esting and charming of our companions had 
been the Rev. Dr. Brainard, of Auburn, New 
York; we parted with him reluctantly. A 
drive about Buffalo and another visit to Niag- 
ara Falls filled up the da}^ On Saturday morn- 
ing we reached home, thankful for the delights 
which had been ours all through our journey, 
and singing more heartily than ever before. 

"Our God, we thank Thee, Who hast made 

The earth so bright ; 
So full of splendor and of joy, 

Beauty and light ; 
So many glorious things are here. 

Noble and right. 

" We thank Thee too, that thou hast made 

Joy to abound ; 
So many gentle thoughts and deeds 

Circling us round. 
That in the darkest spot of earth 

Some love is found." 



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APPENDIX 



AND SOME OF ITS 

WELL-KNOWN MEN 



This little publication was written, and 
is republished, that the story of a 
remarkable journey may be preserved. 
As it is printed in Philadelphia, it has 
been thought proper to add an appen- 
dix, with some pictures of buildings 
and scenery that have helped to make 
the Quaker City famous, and brief 
sketches of some of its well-known 
men, active in business, in professional 
pursuits, or in public life, most of 
whom have been interested in the 
success of this " Souvenir." 



PUBLISHED BY 

CHARLES H. CLARKE 
Philadelphia 




philacdelphieL 

RICH IN HISTORIC ASSOCIATIONS 



HILADELPHIA is one of the oldest, and to many persons is the most 
interesting, historically, of any city in the United States, and has preserved 
many of its historic landmarks. 

The city was founded in 1 68 1 by William Penn, and his original residence 
is still preserved, having been removed to Fairmount Park. The " Old 
Swedes" was the first church built in Pennsylvania, in 1700. Christ 
Church was built in 1727. The spot where Penn made his celebrated treaty 
with the Indians is preserved as a park. In Carpenters' Hall, the first 
Continental Congress met in 1774. In Independence Hall the Declaration of Independence 
was read, and in this building is still preserved the bell which was rung on that occasion, known 
all over the land as the •■ Liberty Bell." In Philadelphia are preserved the Betsy Ross house, 
where the first United States " Stars and Stripes ' flag was made ; the residences of Alexander 
Hamilton, Secretary of State under Washington ; Benedict Arnold ; Robert Morris, the financier 
of the Revolution ; Judge Peters, the Secretary of War of the Colonies during that struggle : 
also the Mint, and Custom House, still used as such : and grave of Benjamin Franklin. 

Besides being the earliest seat of government of the United States and the centre of 
interest during the colonial and revolutionary periods, Philadelphia was the most loyal and 
patriotic of any of the large cities of the country during the war of 1861-65. Philadelphia has 
been the birthplace of many notable events in the history of the United States ; a few of them : 

The first pleasure grounds for the people, laid out in North America, dedicated in 1681. 

The first paper mill built in North America, erected upon the Wissahickon Creek, 1690. 

The mariners' quadrant was invented by Thomas Godfrey. Germantown, Philadelphia. 1730. 

The first public library in the United States, founded by Benjamin Franklin. 1731. 

The first American volunteer fire company was organized here in 1736. 

The American Philosophical Institution, the first institution devoted to science in North 
America, was founded in this city by Benjamin Franklin, in 1743. 

The first medical school in the United States was inaugurated in Philadelphia, in 1751. 

The Pennsylvania Hospital, the first establishment in America devoted to the relief of the 
sick, was chartered by the Assembly of Pennsylvania, in 1751. 

The theory that lightning and electricity were the same was demonstrated here by 
Benjamin Franklin. June 15, 1752. First lightning rod used in the world was set up by 
Benjamin Franklin at his dwelling-house. Second and Race Streets, in September, 1752. 

The Philadelphia Contributionship for insurance against losses by fire, established here 1 752. 

The first expedition fitted out in North America for Arctic exploration sailed from here, 1 753. 

The first school of anatomy in North America was opened here, November 26, 1762. 

The first pianoforte manufactured in the United States, made here by John Behrent, 1775. 

The first American flag was made at No. 239 Arch Street. 

The first Hospital in connection with a university in the United States was opened here. 

The first vessel moved by steam was navigated on the Delaware River at Philadelphia. 

The first law -school in America opened here in 1790. 

The Mint of the United States was established here in 1792, by act of Congress. 

The first coins made in the United States were struck at No. 29 North Seventh Street. 

Philadelphia Water Works, the first of the kind in the country, commenced May 2, 1799. 

Because Philadelphia is so rich in historic interest and relics, it must not be imagined 
that it is not also rich in present-day interest. It has the largest ship-building plant in the 
United States, the largest and finest United States Mint, the largest and handsomest City 
Buildings, the largest department store in the world, the largest locomotive shops in the world, 
finest park in the world, longest paved street in the United States, and other modern features. 




Mahlon N. Klini:, Treasurer and General Alanager of The 
Smith, Kline & French Company, Arch street, below Fifth 
street, which is one of the largest wholesale drug concerns in 
theUnited States, was born February 6, 1846, near Hamburg, 
Berks County, Pa. He was educated in the public schools 
near Hamburg, and had two years' experience as a pupil in 
a private school in Reading, Pa. When he was four- 
teen years old he came to this city, and attended public 
school here for six months, returning then to his home 
in Berks County, where he taught school for one year at 
a place three miles from Reading. For a year and a half 
he worked in a country store at Hamburg, and then 
returned to this city, to take a position as bookkeeper with the wholesale drug firm 
of Smith & Shoemaker, at 243 North Third street. This was on the fifteenth of 
February, 1865. Mr. Kline was admitted as a member of the firm in 1868. Mr. 
Shoemaker retired in 1869 and the name of the firm was changed to Smith, Kline 6c- 
Co. They continued in business until 1887, when they removed to 429 and 43: 
Arch street, where they have been located ever since, the concern also occupying 
No. 433 and 435 Arch street. In 1888 the firm was incorporated under the name 
of "The Smith & Kline Company." 

On the first of January, 1891, the business of the wholesale drug house of French, 
Richards & Co., was closed out, and Mr. Harry B. French entered the Smith & Kline 
Company, and was elected its vice-president, the name being changed to "The 
Smith, Kline & French Company." In volume the business is the third in its line in the 
United States. 

Mr. Mahlon N. Kline was president of the National Wholesale Druggists' Associa- 
tion in 1885, and was chairman of its most prominent and active committee 
for ten years, from 1887 to 1S97. He was president and for many years, a director, 
of the Philadelphia Drug Exchange. He has been since its organization a member 
of the Board of Directors of the Trades League. In January, 1902, he was elected 
second vice-president of that organization. He is also a member of the Board of 
Directors of the Bourse. Mr. Kline is a member of the Union League, a member 
of the Country Club, and the Manheim Cricket Club. 

He is accounting warden, and superintendent of the Sunday School, and director 
of the Chapter of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew of the Church of the Saviour. 
He is also president of the Local Assembly of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew, 
which includes all the seventy-six chapters in this diocese. Mr. Kline is also a 
member of the Board of Directors of the Franklin Reformatory Home. 

Mahlon N. Kline is recognized everywhere as one of the foremost business men 
of this city, and great as has been his success in mercantile life, what he has done, 
in fifty different ways, for the people of Philadelphia, shows better than anything 
else the great heart and the large intellectual force of the man. 




President Horace H. Lee, of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, 
is one of the best known bankers in the State, and his firm have 
recently entered into possession of their new and handsome ofifices 
at 132 South Fourth street. For eighteen years Mr. Lee has 
been a member of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, and in 1891 he 
was elected a member of the Board of Governors. As the choice of 
the President of the Stock Exchange represents, in the strongest 
way, the expression of confidence from the great financial 
interests, it was no ordinary honor that fell to Mr. Lee when he was this spring 
elected to this important position. 

He is a son of the late Dr. J. K. Lee, an eminent physician, and a resident of West 
Philadelphia, where ^Ir. Horace H. Lee still resides, in the old family mansion, at the 
Southwest corner of Thirty-eighth and Chestnut streets. After a preparatory course 
at Rugby Academy, Wr. Lee graduated at the L^niversity of Pennsylvania, in 1880. 
He is treasurer of the Hamilton Land & Improvement Company, a member of the 
Vestry of the Church of the Saviour, a member of the Union League, Phi Kappa 
Sigma Society, and the Houston Club. 



OxE of the best known real estate men in the city is Mr. John 0. 
She.\tz, who has been engaged in some of the largest and most 
important transactions in his line that have taken place in recent 
years in Philadelphia. He is a prominent resident of the Twenty- 
fourth Ward, and is very popular with the best citizens west of the 
Schuylkill River, where he has often been urged, by the business 
men, to permit his name to be mentioned for public positions. He 
received a good business education, and after leaving Easton, Pa., 
his native place, he came here, and was apprenticed to The Baldwin Locomotive 
Works on the recommendation of the late Asa Packer, then President of the Lehigh 
Valley R. R. Co., and Stanley H. Goodwin, the General Superintendent of the 
same railroad. Mr. Sheatz stayed with the Baldwin Locomotive Works for thirteen 
years in different departments. After leaving the Baldwin Company, he engaged in 
the retail coal business at Twenty-third and Spring Garden streets, and upon the re- 
moval of the tracks by the city for the improvement to the new entrance to the park, 
erected several buildings on the property, in one of which he has his real estate office. 
In addition to the above business, Mr. Sheatz is also Treasurer of The Frank Queen 
Publishing Company, of New York. 





Colonel Bosbyshell is a name that conjures pleasant and 
friendly thoughts to a host of Philadelphians and Pennsylvanians, 
for his dignified, yet gracious, personality yields to him the friend- 
ship of almost every man, woman and child with whom he comes in 
contact. 

At fifteen years of age he began the struggle of life as a 
messenger boy in the employ of the Philadelphia & Reading 
Telegraph Company at Poltsville, Pa. Two years later he entered 
the law office of Hon. F. W. Hughes, and at nineteen became a 
student of law in the office of his uncle, WilHam L. Whitney, Esq. 

The War of the RebelUon found Bosbyshell amongst the first 
to respond to President Lincoln's call for troops, enlisting on the 
sixteenth of April, 1861, and mustered into the U. S. Volunteer 
service as a private of the Washington Artillerists of Pottsville 
on the eighteenth, and reaching Washington City the same evening. 
He served humbly during the three months, and in September, 1861. became Second Lieutenant 
of Company G, Forty-eighth Regiment Infantry, Pennsylvania Volunteers, serving with that 
organization during the war, having repeatedly received assignments to various duties of honor 
and trust, and being promoted First Lieutenant and .Captain of his company, and made Major 
of his regiment. The operations of this regiment are graphically set forth in a book written and 
published by Colonel Bosbyshell, called "The Forty-eighth in the War," which has met with the 
warm approval not only of the members of the command, but many other readers. 

In November, 1889, by appointment of President Harrison, he assumed the superintend ency 
of the Mint, and admirably administered its affairs until April, 1894, when President Cleveland 
preferred another man for the place. During Colonel Bosbyshell's connection with the Mint ser- 
vice he introduced many improvements in the work, and he it was who projected and carried 
through to a successful conclusion the establishment of a new Mint building in this city. It is 
doubtful if there is a better informed and better qualified Mint man in the United States to-day 
than Colonel Bosbyshell. 

Immediately upon leaving the Mint the Colonel became active vice-president and subsequently 
treasurer of the Fidelity Mutual Life Association of Philadelphia, which latter position he still holds. 
Colonel Bosbyshell has been a busy man all his life, actively engaged in many ways for the 
welfare of the community. He has been particularly interested in the National Guard of Pennsyl- 
vania for many years, having been Major of the Second Regiment in December, 1878, promoted 
Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel, serving in all positions with credit. In August. 1893, he resigned 
and was placed on the retired roll of officers. However, when the late war with Spain absorbed the 
National Guard, Colonel Bosbyshell was called again into the ranks of the National Guard, and by 
Governor Hastings' direction, organized the Nineteenth Regiment Infantry, N. G. P., becoming 
its colonel, a position he still holds. 

His interest has been largely given to church and Sunday School work, forty-five years of his 
life being actively engaged therein. But a few years ago he relinquished the superintendency of 
the Sunday School of the Church of the Saviour, West Philadelphia, after thirty years' connection 
with that school. He served as a Vestryman of the Church of the Saviour for many years, being its 
secretary most of the time he was connected therewith. His musical tastes led him to conduct a 
church choir for his church for many years, and he has been a member and supporter of the large 
chorus societies of "the city, having served as president of the Philadelphia Chorus in the palmiest 
days of that organization. 

He is a director of the Musical Fund Hall; chairman of the trustees of University Lodge, No. 
610, F. and A. M.; companion of Pennsylvania Commandery, Military Order of the Loyal Legion 
of the United States; one of the founders of the Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution; 
treasurer of the Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of Foreign Wars; a member of 
the Union Leagtie, Historical Society and Old Guard of the Second Regiment, U. S. V. He is a 
past commander of the Department of Pennsylvania G. A. R., being a comrade in Post 2, of this 
citv. 




Dr. Edward Brooks, Superintendent of the Public Schools of 
Philadelphia, and the most efficient and distinguished man who has 
ever held that position, was born at Stonj^ Point, New York. 
When he was eighteen years old he taught school at Cuddebackville, 
New York, and a year later entered Liberty Normal Institute. After- 
wards he was made Professor in the University of Northern Pennsyl- 
vania, and later occupied the Chair of Literature and Mathematics in 
;\Ionticello Academy, New York. In 1855 he became Professor of 
Mathematics at the Normal School of Millersville, Pa., and in 1866 
was made President of that institution. In 1858 Union College conferred upon him 
thedegreeof A. ;\I. ; in 1868 he was elected president of the State Teachers' Association, 
and in 1876 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from three prominent 
institutions, being also elected president of the Normal Department of the National 
Educational Association. In 1883 he came to Philadelphia, and in i8gi he was appointed 
to his present office. Under his direction there has been a steady progress and 
improvement in the public school system of this city, and Dr. Brooks is known, 
throughout this country and abroad, as one of the foremost educators of the times. 

He is an author of many of the most valuable educational works which have 
appeared during the last forty years, and these volumes are standards everywhere. 

Dr. Brooks is now Rector's Warden of St. Paul's Memorial Church, Overbrook. 



Henrv Ree\'es Edmunds, the distinguished lawyer, who has been 
a United States Commissioner in this city since April 4, 1883, 
was born here, January 17, 1840. His father was Franklin D. 
Edmunds, who was born at Cape May, New Jersey, in 1814, and 
died in 1859. His mother was Ann .Marshall Stanger, who was 
)oni in Marshallville, New Jersey, February 11, 1815, and died 
March 18, 1897. 

Henry R. Edmunds received his early education in the Philadel- 
phia public schools, graduating from the High School in July, 1856. 
After studying law, he was admitted to the Bar Januar}' 19, 1861. 
At that time he made a special study of Marine Law. For twenty-five years he repre- 
sented The Vessel Owners' and Captains' Association as counsel. During this period he 
won a number of notable cases for his clients, and became the accepted authority on 
those points of law dealing with Marine Legislation and controversy. He is now 
counsel for many of the leading steamship lines and Marine Insurance Companies 
of the country. He is married, and has four children, two sons and two daughters. 
Commissioner Edmunds is a director of the American Dredging Company, is inter- 
ested in many organizations of a charitable nature, and is president of the Board of 
Education of Philadelphia. 

He is one of the few men whose strength of character, integrity, knowledge of 
the law, and unflinching courage have won and held the implicit confidence of all 
classes in the community. 





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Bank, is one of the most prominent men in the city. The 
people believe in him implicitly, but they know only a little of his 
manifold charities, and his influence for good in a hundred different 
directions. 

He was born on the 28th of September, 1846, at York Springs 
\'illage, Adams County, Pennsylvania, and is the son of John B. 
McCreary and Rachel Deardorff. His early ancestors on his father's 
side were Scotch-Irish, and on his mother's side German-Baptists, 
who came to this country to escape religious persecution. In 1848 the family 
removed to Tremont, Schuylkill County; in 1856 to Tamauqua; in 1859 to Mauch 
Chunk, and in 1864 they finally settled in Philadelphia. From 1861 to 1864 
George D. McCreary attended Saunders' Institute, in West Philadelphia, where the 
Presbyterian Hospital now stands, and in 1864 he entered the University of Phila- 
delphia. In 1867 he went into business with the Honeybrook Coal Company, of which 
his father was President. In 1870 he became a member of the new firm of Whitney, 
McCreary & Kemmerer, selling agents at wholesale in the coal business. They did a 
very large and successful business, and in 1879, when Mr. McCreary's father died, he 
sold out to take charge of his father's estate. He served for three years as Treas- 
urer of the City and County of Philadelphia. 

In 1S78 Mr. McCreary married a daughter of the late William Howell, a 
prominent wall j;)aper manufacturer, and he has two sons and two daughters. 

Franklin Spencer Edmonds, author of the " History of the Central 
High School of Philadelphia," was born in Philadelphia on March 28, 
1874. He is the son of the late Henry R. Edmonds, who was prom- 
inent in insurance circles, and of Catharine Ann Huntzinger. He 
was educated at home until his tenth year, and then in the public 
schools. He was graduated in the High School with first honors, 
winning the Alumni Gold Medal and the Valedictory Oration. 
Having been awarded a City Scholarship at the Universit}^ of 
Pennsylvania, he at once entered the Junior Year in the Wharton 
School. After graduation from the University in 1893, he was 
appointed Assistant Secretary of the American Society for the 
Extension of Universitv Teaching, serving one year as an organizer of teachers' classes. 
In 1894 he was appointed Andrew D. White Fellow in History and Political Science 
at Cornell Universitv, where he spent one year in post-graduate study. At this time 
it was Mr. Edmonds' intention to finish his university training abroad, but the death 
of his father caused a change in the plans, and in 1895 he returned to Philadelphia to 
commence his service as a teacher at the Central High School. For two years he was 
Instructor in Historv, but in 1897 he was elected Assistant Professor of Political 
Science, and in the spring of 1902, he was promoted to a full professorship. 

Mr. Edmonds is now President of the Educational Club of this city. In conjunction 
with Professor George H . Cliff he aided in the establishment of The Teacher, an educa- 
tional journal, and served for two years as Chairman of the Board of Editors. He 
has written a number of educational articles, of which the most important is " Progress 
in Education During the 19th Century," which was originally written as a chapter 
for a larger work, and has since been reprinted in pamphlet form. He has been, since 
1900, Master of Archives of the Associated Alumni of the Central High School. He is 
a member of American Historical Association, American Economic Association, Penn- 
sylvania Historical Society, American Statistical Society, American Academy of 
Political and Social Science, etc. He is a member of University Club, Schoolmen's 
Club, Franklin Institute Club, etc. He is actively engaged in Young Men's Christian 
Association work and is a member of Committee of Management of Central Branch. 




Hkxry Brooks was born in Yorkshire, England, near the town 

of Huddersfield. When very young he came to this country with 

his parents. He was educated in West Philadelphia, and when his 

4^ -• I latlier, George Brooks, one of the most prominent manufacturers in 

,\ I the country died, Henry Brooks assumed control of, and now oper- 

mg^j/I^^^^J ates the Oriental Wills. He is president of the Standard Fire Insur- 

^R ^Kv ance Company, a proininent member of the Manufacturers' Club, 

^^J^^ the Young Republican Club, and the Oriental Lodge of Masons_ 

and is Rector's Warden of St. James' Episcopal Church, West Philadelphia. He is 

serving his second term as Clerk of Quarter Sessions of this county. 

Mr. Brooks resides at 5300 Girard avenue. The house which he owns and occupies 
was one of the old Supplee residences. Mr. Brooks owns the entire square upon which 
his house stands. He is married, and has five sons and one daughter, the latter being 
married to Dr. Harvey, of West Philadelphia. 

His recreation is traveling, and sailing on the Jersey coast, where he spends his 
spare time in summer. He has made two trips to Europe, traveling through Great 
Britain, and in most of the countries on the continent. 



M.\r,iSTRATE J. M. R. Jer.mon, whose last election was such a 
triumphant vindication of the power of the people to choose their own 
aiblic officials, is the best known and probably the ablest member 
the minor judicial bench in this State. His integrity, his knowl- 
.Ige of the law, his immense popularity with the people, and his 
human sympathy, have combined to make him a man of prominence. 
He was bom in January, 1851, in the old District of Southwark. 
He was educated in private schools, and in the Episcopal 
Academy. In 1874 he was appointed a Notary PubHc, and in 1881 Indictment 
Clerk in the oftice of District Attorney Graham, holding the position with marked 
ability until Ai)ril ist, 1895, when he was first chosen Magistrate. He was re-elected 
to the minor judicial bench in the spring of 1901. He is an Odd Fellow, 
a member of the Knights of Pythias, and of other social and political organiza- 
tions. Under his influence children arrested for criminal offences have been 
kept separate from ordinary crimin^ils, and the way made clear for their 
reformation. Xo other magistrate is so well known to the men who stand strongest 
in business and financial affairs in this city. 





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Hon. Charles F, Warwick, ex-Mayor of this city, transacts one 
of the largest legal practices in the State at his offices in the Crozer 
Building, Chestnut street above Broad; and, in spite of this, he is 
able to appear as the principal orator at many important public 
gatherings in the various great cities of the country. His charm and 
force as a public speaker are still increasing. 

He was born in this city, educated in the public schools, graduated 
from the Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania, 
studied in the office of the late E. Spencer Miller, and was admitted to 
the Bar in 1873. His success was immediate. In 1878 he became an Assistant City 
Solicitor, then Assistant District Attorney under George S. Graham, and in 1884 was 
elected City Solicitor, the youngest man who ever attained that position here. He 
was repeatedly re-elected until 1895, when he was chosen Mayor of Philadelphia by 
a plurality of over 60,000 votes. During his administration as Mayor he received 
Li Hung Chang, he dedicated the magnificent Washington Monument in Fairmount 
Park, and under his administration Philadelphia made wonderful progress in 
every direction. 

Mr. Warwick is one of the most celebrated after-dinner speakers in the country, 
and is a member of many of the most exclusive clubs and social organizations 
in this and other cities. 



Richard B. Williams, Deputy-Surveyor of the Port of Philadel- 
phia, is descended from old Revolutionary stock; and, as a busi- 
ness man in this city, and as Assistant Commissioner of Highways 
has made a record for integrity, success and executive ability. 
When he was appointed Deputy Surveyor of the Port by Collector 
C. Wesley Thomas, he was warmly congratulated by hundreds of 
men prominent in financial and commercial affairs. 

The duties of his position as Deputy Surveyor are in the main 
advisory and comprehend the direction and control of the Customs 
force assigned for duty on arriving vessels and their cargoes, or on vessels clearing 
with bonded or draw-back merchandise. He assigns the proper complement of 
Customs Inspectors for duty on arriving vessels and acts as Surveyor's Staff Officer in 
the handling of passengers and supervising the examination of their effects. He 
assigns Inspectors for service in the discharging and delivery of cargoes of importing 
vessels and details the requisite number of weighers and gangers for ascertaining 
quantitv of merchandise thereon, dutiable by weight or gauge. 

Under the Surveyor's direction he determines the limits of the patrol of the 
District and Night Inspectors and makes the proper assignment of the same. 
He details laborers for the assistance of weighers and gaugers in the handling of 
merchandise for the ascertainment of the quantity. He is successfully reorganizing his 
important department of the service, and will bring it to a high and efficient standard. 





Thomas Dolax, President of The United Gas Improvement Com- 
pany, has not only made the great corporation of which he is the 
head a remarkably successful concern, but has made it popular in 
every one of the scores of cities where it operates and owns gas 
works. Before he became known as one of the most prominent 
financiers of the country, Mr. Dolan was one of the largest and most 
successful manufacturers in the United States. His reputation 
was established, at that time, as a man of integrity, infinite capacity 
for work, and the broadest executive skill. His is the spirit whicla 
has animated every move of the United Gas Improvement Company 
since he became its chief executive officer, and that spirit has been a 
determination to deal fairly with the consumers, and spare no expense, and no trouble, 
to meet their wants in the most minute particulars. This is good business, as well as 
the highest type of foresight, and to-day, wherever the United Gas Improvement 
Company operates, the people are more than satisfied with the service, which has in 
each case proved itself so much superior to the political direction of gas supplies. 

It would be impossible, in the limits of a short sketch like this, to adequately portray 
Thomas Dolan as he is, for he has all the qualities of courage, charm of manners, 
staunch friendship, and wonderful personal magnetism, that go to make up the char- 
acters of the great leaders in State and in finance. He is known in this city, by all the 
citizens, as a man whose word is absolutely true, who never breaks a promise, and who 
seeks every opportunity to benefit Philadelphia, and to render genuine services to his 
friends. Few men, anywhere, have so wholly the confidence and the esteem of the peo- 
ple; and one of the chief reasons of this is, that his great success, in all the numerous 
interests with which he is connected, has not changed those personal qualities which 
have always made him such an attractive figure. His position in the financial world, 
his wealth, and his high reputation in business circles evervwhere, important as these 
things are, are small in comparison with his own admirable personality. 



Robert J. Wright, Solicitor of the Hamilton Trust Company, 
which does a large business in the western section of the city, is one 
of the best known members of the Bar of Philadelphia, and has his 
law offices at No. iioS Land Title Building, Broad and Chestnut 
streets. .Mr. Wright's practice as an attorney has covered a great 
deal in corporation affairs, in large real estate transactions, and in 
estates, and he is not only known as a counsel of integrity, 
ability, and eloquence, but as a lawyer who has an unusual knowledge 
of everything relating to monetary affairs. He is one of the most popular 
men at the Bar in his city, and whenever he appears in a case in the County, 
Federal or State Courts, there is public interest in what he does and says. 

He has had charge of the settlement of some very large estates, and among those 
recently, which he has settled, are several amounting in value to hundreds 
of thousands of dollars. His practice is almost entirely civil. He is fond of books, 
much interested in public education, and has made a strong impression in public 
life, not only as a speaker, but as a ready debater. 





Old Christ Church. 

Secottd Street, above Market Street. {Built in 172J,) 




The Hon. Ebenezer Adams, who for twenty-five years was actively 
engaged in business in this city, and who devotes his atten- 
tion, largely, to the care of his extensive interests in real estate, is 
(jne of the best known and most respected men living in the western 
section of the city. He made an enviable record by his service for 
the Union in the War of the Rebellion. He served for one term 
in the Legislature at Harrisburg, during which period he was largely 
instrumental in securing heavy appropriations for many chari- 
table institutions in his district. 

Mr. Adams comes of a family which has taken a distinguished 
part in the annals of American History. A brief reference to 
a few members will serve to show their patriotism and courage. Ebenezer 
Adams, who was born March - 15, 1737, at Braintree, ilassachusetts, and who 
died in 1791, was among those who contributed in money and in other ways 
to aid the cause of American Independence. Ephraim Adams, who was born 
in 1712, and died in 1802, was a private in the War of the Revolution in the 
company of Captain Edmund Briant, in Colonel Daniel Mevie's regiment. This 
was a New Hampshire regiment, and marched to Saratoga. It also did service in 
Rhode Island. Ebenezer Adams, of Kingston, who was born in 1744, and died in 1830, 
served as a private in 1776 in the company of Captain Ebenezer Washburn, in the 
regiment of Colonel Thomas Lothrop. Ansel Adams, of Barnstable, Mass., was born 
in 1761 and died in 1849. He enlisted August 22, 1778, in Captain Matthias Tobey's 
company, serving three months and twenty-seven days at Winter Hill; also in Cap- 
tain Simeon Fisher's company, Colonel Freeman's regiment. Ebenezer Adams, 
who was born at Rhinebeck, N. Y., and who died January 31, 1846, at Red Hook, 
New York, served throughout the War of 1812 in the militia, and received wounds 
which made him lame for life. 



Coroner Tho.\ias Dugan was born in this city, September 29, 1849, 
and attended school at John Quincy Adams Grammar School. He 
was appointed Messenger in the Coroner's office by Coroner Thomas 
J. Powers, in Julv, 1880. In 1882 he was made Assistant Clerk 
under Coroner William S. Janney, and in 1S84 was promoted to 
Chief Clerk by Coroner Powers, who had then entered upon his 
second term as Coroner. Since Mr. Dugan was elected Coroner of 
Philadelphia, he has ably fulfilled the semi-judicial duties of that 
office. He has taken a great interest in the medical side of his 
division of the local government. The discipline and efTectiveness 
of the Physician's work under Mr. Dugan has been remarked in 
The Coroner's physicians of Philadelphia are called as experts in 




many cities. 

the courts of manv'states. 



William W. P'oulkrod was born in Philadelphia, November 22, 
1846. He was educated in the public schools and entered the 
business world under the tutelage of Mustin & Bennett. He soon 
became a member of the firm of T. J. Mustin & Co. This was 
later absorbed by John Wanamaker, and thus these two giants 
of the business ' world came together. Mr. Wanamaker purchased 
Hood, Bonbright & Co., which was succeeded by Hood, Foulkrod 
& Co., in which Mr. Wanamaker held a special interest until the 
firm went out of business about a year ago. 

Not only is Mr. Foulkrod active in permanent municipal 
associations, but he was the directing head of the great Export 
Exposition. He is President of the Art Club, Historical Society and the Citizen's 
Permanent Relief Societv. He is President of the Trades League. 





Hon. Maxwell Stevenson, who has been one of the most dis- 
tinguished leaders of the Philadelphia Bar for many years, and who 
is one of the most popular men in the city in legal and financial 
circles, has been largely interested, during the past two or three 
years, in important mining enterprises in British Columbia. Judge 
Stevenson has not handled these great undertakings as a speculator, 
but simply as a business man, and the large and valuable properties 
which he controls in the Black Diamond Tunnel Company, 
and in the Highlander properties, are said to be wonderfully rich in high-grade 
precious ores. These corporations control several different mines, paying properties, 
the development of which is being largely increased. The eastern offices of these 
corporations are at No. 604 Land Title Building, Broad and Chestnut streets. 

As a lawyer. Judge Stevenson is one of the best-known and most successful at 
the Bar. He has appeared in many of the most noted homicide cases in this part 
of the state during the past twenty-five years. 




Harry A. Mackey, is a leading member of the Junior Bar of 
Philadelphia. His strong personality, his extended and accurate 
knowledge of the law, his power of seizing and using to advan- 
tage every opportunity that presents itself while he is conducting 
a case, have marked him as a brilliant attorney. 

Harry A. Mackey was born on June 26th, 1869, in Susquehanna 
County, in this State. His father, George W. Mackey, Esq., is a 
prominent member of the Northampton County Bar. After 
finishing his scholastic and collegiate education, at the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, during which he secured many prizes, and took high honors, Mr. Mackey 
studied law in the offices of Hon. W. W. Porter, now Justice of the Superior Court. 
He afterwards was a partner and practiced law with ex-Judge James Gay Gordon, 
one of the most brilliant men of the Philadelphia Bar. 

Mr. Mackey" is a Mason, a member of the Atlantic City Country Club, the 
Theta Nu Epsilon fraternity, the ex-archon. First District ; Phi Kappa Psi 
fraternity, Philadelphia Law Association. He has an extensive acquaintance 
and a large circle of business and social friends. 

Mr. Mackey now owns a valuable slate property in which he, when a boy, worked 
for a mere pittance, and in connection with his father he owns other extensive 
interests in the slate regions. 




Dr. William P. Wilsox, Director of the Philadelphia Commercial 
Museum, was educated at the Agricultural College of Michigan and 
at Harvard University, where he was afterwards Instructor in 
Botany for several years. He also spent several years in the Univer- 
sities of Germany and Italy, receiving the degree of Doctor of 
Natural Sciences from the University of Tiibingen. In 1893 he 
conceived the idea of founding a Commercial Museum with the raw 
products exhibited by different nations at the World's Fair, at 
Chicago. He secured the authority of the city of Philadelphia, 
and succeeded in having donated to the proposed museum the 
large collections exhibited by nearly every country, especially the Spanish- American 
countries. The Philadelphia Commercial Museum is due to him and his constant 
labor and activity. 

He was born in Oxford, Oakland County, in the northern part of ;\Iichigan, in 
1844. His earlv life was spent in farming. At a later date he entered a large plant 
in the West for the manufacture of agricultural implements and machinerv. 

After taking his Harvard degree he spent some time in studying in the Univer- 
sities of G()ttingen, Berlin, the University of Naples and later the University of 
Tiibingen. Later he settled in Philadelphia as Professor of Botany in the Universitv 
of Pennsylvania, and he was also director of the Department of Biology. 

He has visited Europe a number of times, the last time to make a thorough 
study of commercial organizations, bureaus and commercial museums in the different 
countries of Europe, including Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. 
He is the life and inspiration of the great Commercial Museum in this city. 



P. F. RoTHERMEL, Jr., was born in September, 1850, in Philadelphia, 
where he has resided ever since. His father was the distinguished 
artist, P. F. Rothermel. 

He was educated both in this country and abroad, and soon 
after his admission to the bar made his mark as a brilliant and suc- 
cessful lawver. His record as District Attorney was in every way an 
ideal one. He has managed some of the most important corporation 
cases before the courts of the State in the past twenty years, and has 
been defeated in very few of them. His knowledge of mercantile 
law is exceeded by few, if any, members of the Philadelphia bar. 

Mr. Rothermel has at least twice refused offers of appointment to the Common 
Pleas Court Judgeship. His election to the District Attorneyship by a handsome 
majority, even in the face of a particularly strong combination seeking to elect 
United States Attorney James M. Beck, was to have been expected. And thus the 
new District Attorney stepped from the seclusion of his private practice into the 
full glare of a searchlight of publicity. 

Fidelity to his clients has been the guidingrule of Mr. Rothemiel's professional life. 
Twenty years ago he married Miss Josephine Bryant, the daughter of the 
wealthy coal operator, and has one son, a young man of nineteen. 





Alexander Crow, Jr., Accounting Warden of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church of the Redemption, at Twenty-second and 
Callowhill streets, was born and educated in this city, where his 
parents Hved for many years. His father, before him, was Account- 
ing Warden of the Church of the Redemption, and Alexander 
Crow, Jr., has been a delegate to many of the conventions of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church in this Diocese. 

He has long been a prominent figure in business and public life, 
being the owner of some of the largest and busiest mills in the 
city. He is a member of the Union League, an organization that represents 
in its membership the leading financial, mercantile, and professional interests 
in this city. 

During his term as Sheriff of Philadelphia County, Mr. Crow conducted that im- 
portant office upon a high plane of honor and efficiency, and widened the circle of 
friends who have supported him in everything that he has attempted of a public na- 
ture. He has been identified for years with all the important movements for the 
benefit of the city and of the State, and he is recognized as a leading citizen. 
Personally he is very popular, and is well-known in New York, and in other 
Eastern cities, which he is often compelled to visit on account of his large mer- 
cantile and financial interests. '■ 




Henry Clay is a man who holds a unique position in public affairs. 
His influence, at many a critical stage in the city's affairs, has 
been cast for the welfare of the people. A successful man of busi- 
ness, a man of warm friendships, little wonder that Henry Clay 
has long been a commanding figure. He was born in this city on 
the seventeenth of August, 1850. His education was obtained in 
the public schools of Philadelphia. 

In 1865 he accepted an opportunity to enter the real estate and 
conveyancing office of J. H. Siddall & Sons, at the southwest cor- 
ner of Fourth and Green streets. Mr. Clay stayed with the firm 
until July, i86g, when he entered the employ of W. Fred. Snyder, 
in the same line of business, remaining there nine years. 

At the end of that time he opened a real estate and conveyancing office f ^r himself 
at Q06 North Sixth street. There he rem.ained until 1891, when he was elected presi- 
dent and manager of the Northern Electric Light and Power Company. He remained 
in this position until recently, when he surrendered his office. He is still largely inter- 
ested in electrical concerns. 

In 1869 Mr. Clay married Miss S. E. Hausman, of this city. They have two 
daughters. 

In 1887 he was elected Receiver of Taxes, and held the office until 1890. fn 
November, 1892, he was elected to Select Council, and has been re-elected ever since. 
He is a life member of St. Paul's Masonic Lodge, No. 481 ; of Pacific Lodge, Odd Fel- 
lows and of several social organizations. He still has a number of relics of his real 
estate business, in the shape of trust estates which he still manages. 




Since Senator Boies Penrose was elected to the United 
vStates Senate, to succeed J. Donald Cameron, for the terra 
beginning March 4, 1897, his strong personality has made 
a deep and favorable impression in Washington, and his 
influence in national affairs, as well as in his own city and 
State, has increased in a remarkable degree. 

He was born in his present residence, on Spruce street, 
below Broad, in the Eighth Ward of the city of Philadel- 
phia, November i, i860. He is the son of Professor R. A. 
F. Penrose, M. D., LL. D., of the Medical Department of 
the University of Pennsylvania, and is a nephew of Judge 
Clement Riddle Penrose, of the Orphans' Court of Phila- 
delphia County. 

Senator Penrose obtained his earh' education at the Episcopal Academy of 
Philadelphia and under private tutors. He was an apt scholar, and made such 
rapid progress that he was enabled to enter Harvard College at a very early age, 
and he graduated in 1881, being one of five from a class of nearly two hundred 
and fifty who by competitive examination were chosen to deliver orations on 
Commencement Day. He also received honorable mention in political science, 
the aft'airs of government having even at that time attracted his interest and atten- 
tion. 

After leaving Harvard, he chose the law as a profession, and began his studies 
with Wayne McVeagh, who has held the posts of United States Attorney- General and 
Minister to the Italian Court, and George Tucker Bispham, Professor of the Law School 
of tlie University of Pennsylvania. Senator Penrose was admitted to the Bar in 
December, 1883, and soon formed a partnership with S. Davis Page, who served as 
United States Sub-Treasurer at Philadelphia, and Edward B. Allinson, under 
the firm name of Page, Allinson & Penrose, for the practice of law. 

In 1884 he was elected as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Repre- 
sentatives, from the Eighth Ward of Philadelphia. While on the floor of the 
Lower House he took a particular interest in promoting the success of the Bullitt Bill, 
the Reform Charter of Philadelphia, and was interested in many other important 
measures which are now on the statute books of the State. 

In 1886 he was elected to the State Senate from the Sixth District, which com- 
prised the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Wards of Philadelphia, a district in the verv 
heart of the city, and one of the richest and most influential in the State. The grand- 
father of Senator Penrose formerly represented part of the same District in the State 
Senate, and at his death, which occurred during his term of office, he was succeeded 
b}- Samuel J. Randall. As a member of the Upper House at Harrisburg, Senator 
Penrose took active part in debate and deliberations, both on the floor and in committee 
rooms, taking especial interest in the great question of reform in inunicipal govern- 
ment. He was. continually re-elected to the State Senate until 1896, when he suc- 
ceeded Senator Cameron in Washington. 

In collaboration with his partner, Mr. Allinson, he, in 1886, wrote a "History of 
the Government of the City of Philadelphia," at the request of the Faculty of the Johns 
Hopkins University of Baltimore. Senator Penrose and Mr. Allinson have also con- 
tributed other valuable matter to the literature of their profession, and have won a 
reputation as legal authors of the first rank. 




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John T. Harrison, the well-known hosiery manufac- 
turer, and senior member of the firm of Harrison & Mal- 
latratt, 314 to 328 Armat street, Germantown, was born 
in England; but he came to this country with his parents, 
in 1850, when he was only five months old. His father, 
John T. Harrison, senior, was the contractor who built 
the Chestnut Hill Branch of the Reading Railroad. 

Mr. Harrison was educated in the public schools, 
and entered the Union army two months before he was 
fifteen years of age, serving in the Eleventh Maryland 
Regiment, Company B. At the expiration of the War 
of the Rebellion, he was honorably discharged, and 
went to work for Louis Bowman, at that time the only 
florist in Germantown. Some time later he secured a position in the Express 
Department of the Reading Railroad Company, remaining there for ten years, and 
then entered the employ of the Charter Hosiery Company, in Ashmead street, 
Germantown. 

In i88g he began business on his own account at his present location, and 
has been exceedingly successful, the business having increased to three times its 
earh^ proportion. Mr. Harrison has been a prominent figure in public life and during 
his service in the House of Representatives at Harrisburg, he has been interested in 
important legislation desired by the mercantile and financial interests of this city, 
and bv the members of the Bar of Pennsylvania, and he has had passed some of the 
most important bills recently made laws in this State. Among them was a joint 
resolution passed through both Houses, which provided for a commission of five 
lawvers, learned in the law, to draft a new General Corporation law, based on the 
Supreme Court decisions and legal interpretations of the present law. This was 
vetoed bv the Governor. He had passed an Appropriation Bill for the Deaf and 
Dumb Institution at Mt. Airy, for the sum of $260,000. He passed through the 
House, after a hard fight in Committee, a Lien Law, allowing sub-contractors and 
laborers to file liens on buildings for wages, the same as original contractors. This 
bill was substituted by a Senate bill of general lien character. Through his efforts 
a bill was passed to allow depositions to be taken before magistrates in case any wit- 
nesses were in other States, their depositions taken before anyone authorized to ad- 
minister oaths now being admitted as evidence in any case before a magistrate or 
justice of the peace; a bill appropriating $1,500 to erect a tablet to the memory of 
John Burns on the battlefield of Gettysburg; a bill providing for the retirement of 
Judges of the Supreme, Superior and Common Pleas or (Jrphans' Courts, in case of 
complete disability, and to give them during retirement half pay for the balance of 
their lives; a bill to carry out the provisions of the Act of 1895, to inspect seals and 
weights and measures. This was vetoed by the Governor. Among the other import- 
ant bills made laws through Mr. Harrison's efforts, was a bill appropriating $300,000 
for a new insane asylum, known as the Homeopathic Insane Asylum; a bill making 
appropriations for St. Luke's Hospital, the Jefferson Hospital, and the University of 
Pennsylvania, the Factory bill, the Compulsory Education bill, and the Congressional 
Apportionment bill. 

Mr. Harrison is married, and lias three children, two daughters and a son, the 
latter, Joseph N. Harrison, whoentered the United States Army at the age of eighteen, 
during the Spanish-American War, and who served until the end of the war. 




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"harles Irwin, Deputy Register of Wills, is one of the 
best-known and one of the most popular men in public 
life in this city. No man in Philadelphia, probably, 
e<iuals Mr. Irwin in expert knowledge in regard to the 
office of the Register of Wills, and there, for many years, 
the Deputy Register's fund of accvirate information has 
been of inestimable benefit in conducting the business of 
the department. During his long and faithful service in 
the office of the Register of Wills, in various capacities, 
he has had to transact business of the most important -■ 
nature, and the thousands who have come in contact with him, including a large 
proportion of the officers of the Trust Companies and other financial corporations 
of Philadelphia, have invariably found him courteous, obliging, prompt in the 
dispatch of all affairs, and always ready to go to any trouble necessary to faith- 
fully and quickly execute the matters that came before him. 

He was born in the city of Philadelphia, in 1849, and was left an orphan 
when ten years old. He attended the old Harrison Grammar School, and after finish- 
ing his studies there, entered a printing-office, and became a thorough master of that 
trade, and a member of Typographical Union No. 2. Finding that close application 
to this employment was injuring his eyesight, he abandoned the printing business, and 
was for a time engaged with James Kramer, a well-known surveyor. In 1876 Mr. 
Irwin was appointed a clerk in the office of the Register of Wills, under Gideon Clark, 
and was reappointed under several succeeding incumbents of the office. He became 
Transcribing Clerk under General William B. Kinsey, Assistant Deputy under Mr. 
Gratz, and when Mr. Shields was elected Mr. Irwin was made Deputy Register, 
which position he has since retained. 

He is an active member of the Vesta Club, The Anti-Cobden Club, The Metro- 
politan Social Club of Kensington, Improved Lodge I. O. 0. F. ; Quaker City Lodge 
A. O. U. M.; Past Master of Lodge No. 9, F. & A. M.; Corinthian R. A. Chapter, No. 
250 ; St. Alban's Commandery, No. 47 ; Lulu Temple, A. A. A. Mystic Shrine, and other 
similar organizations. 

He is enthusiastic in everything that he undertakes, and has the rare faculty of 
inspiring others to vigorous and successful action. The regard in which he is 
held by all classes of society is not merely ordinary esteem, but the warmest kind of 
personal friendship. 




Th O.MAS A. GuMMEY, 0116 of the most distinguished and successful 
niemliers of the Philadelphia Bar, whose offices are in the Stephen 
Cirard Building, Twelfth street above Chestnut, was born in this 
citv November 8, 1832. He is the son of John M. and Elizabeth 
Gould (Anners) Gumnie}-. His paternal ancestois were of Ger- 
man descent, settling in this country in the early part of the 
Eighteenth century, and some of them held positions in the Con- 
tinental Army, and were at Valley Forge, and fought under Wash- 
ington at Trenton and Monmouth. His maternal ancestors were 
English. He was educated in private and public schools, and graduated from 
tlie Central High School in 1850. For three years he was employed in a publishing 
house in this citv, afterwards registering as a law student in the Law Depart- 
ment of the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in 1858. For 
many years he has enjoyed a large practice in both the State and Federal Courts, 
being especially successful in corporation cases, many of them involving large sums 
of money: and he has always had a high reputation for the soundness of his opinions, 
especially in matters of real estate. Mr. Gummey married Frances Rebecca Bird, of 
East Walpole, Massachusetts, now deceased, who was descended from Puritan an- 
cestors. He has three children, two sons and a daughter, all married, the oldest '■-on 
superintendent in a large steel manufacturing company, the second son a physician 
in Germantown, and the daughter the wife of a prominent New York business man. 
Mr. Gumiiiey is a lawyer of remarkable physical and mental vigor, and his residence in 
Germantown is a splendid tvpe of Colonial architecture. 



John J. Elcock:, son of former Judge Elcock, is one of the successful and popu- 
lar members of the Philadelphia Bar, and although a young attorney, his force, 
ability, and his well-known integrity, have made him sought by many clients with 
very important interests. « 

He was born in this city in 1S71, and was educated at Rugby Academy, on 
Locust street, below Fifteenth, a school which, under the direction of Clarence 
Smith, was one of the most famous boys' schools in the United States. After 
leaving Rugby, Mr. Elcock entered the University of Pennsylvania, graduating 
in 1892, when he entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, for a 
short time, at the Altoona shops. In these great shops there are always to be found 
sons of the most distinguished and wealthy men in this country and abroad, who 
go there for the thorough experience which they obtain. 

After about one year's stay at Altoona, Mr. Elcock took up the study of law in his 
father's ofifice, the Hon. Thomas R. Elcock, and was admitted to the Bar on the tenth 
of July, 1896. At that time Judge Elcock's offices were at No. 431 Walnut street, but 
he soon afterwards removed, with his son, to their present spacious offices at the 
southeast corner of Fifteenth street and South Penn Square. Mr. John J. Elcock's 
practice is almost entirelv civil, although he has been successful in several important 
criminal cases. He is fond of out-door sports, especially cricket, and is a popular 
speaker on pulilic questions. 




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No man in tlie State is better or more widely known than Colonel A. K. 
McClure. He is the most brilliant living journalist in Penn- 
s^'lvania; he is an orator of singular power and national reputation, 
and his long experience in political affairs, joined with his uncjues- 
tionable ability, unflinching courage, and thorough knowledge of 
men, has given him a well-deserved reputation as a political leader 
of the first rank. Here, in Philadelphia, where Colonel McClure 
founded and for so many years directed the "Philadelphia Times," 
he is one of the most prominent and distinguished citizens, whose 
power for good is an inspiration to those seeking the welfare of Philadelphia, 
while his name has always been a terror to evil-doers in and out of politics. No 
journalist of this State was ever so well known throughout the country, and his 
reputation is international, his brilliant career being familiar to men of letters and 
statesmen in the capitals of Europe. 

Colonel McClure was one of the founders of the Republican party. He was a dele- 
gate to the first Republican National Convention that met in Philadelphia in 1856. In 
1857, he was nominated for the Legislature from Franklin County. He was elected by a 
majority of over 200 votes, while every other man on the ticket was defeated. Colonel 
McClure 's services to the nation during the War of the Rebellion are matters of his- 
tory. He was the close friend of Lincoln, Curtin, and the most distinguished men then 
in official position at Washington. Many a time President Lincoln sought his advice 
and assistance in regard to matters of the highest importance to the country. 




Robert Ralston Bringhurst was born at Logansport, Ind., 
February 2, 1850, and was the son of Thomas Hall Bring- 
hurst, who settled in Logansport when it was a very small 
place. Thomas Hall Bringhurst was a man of mark in the 
Indiana town. He was mayor of Logansport for two terms, 
and was a colonel in the Forty-sixth Indiana Regiment during 
the Civil War. For many years Colonel Bringhurst published 
the Loij^ansport Journal, but about fifteen years ago, when his 
health began to fail, he relinquished all active business, 
including his control of that paper, and retired, though he 
remained active in the politics of his adopted State until his death, about one year ago. 
Robert R. Bringhurst's grandfather, after whom he was named, founded the busi- 
ness of funeral directing, which Mr. Bringhurst has so long and so successfully con- 
ducted at 38 North Eleventh street, in 1846. The office was then on Arch street, near 
Second, but it was soon removed to its present location, where it lias since remained. 

As the schools of Logansport were not as well equipped as those in this city, when 
young Bringhurst was ten years of age he was sent here by his father to be educated, 
and he studied in the old Zane Street Public School, living with his grandparents at that 
time at 38 North Eleventh Street. He pursued his studies here until he was fifteen 
years old, when he went back to Logansport and entered the employ of his uncle, Henry 
Bringhurst, a druggist; but not liking that business, he returned to Philadelphia to 
learn the undertaking business with his grandfather and his uncles, who were associated 
with the firm in this city. 

In 1872, Mr. Bringhurst married Miss Mary Caroline Yerger, of Philadelphia. He 
has three living children, Helen, Bessie Ross, and Anna Clarkson Bringhurst. When 
his grandfather died, his uncle, Mr. William Bringhurst, conducted the business at 38 
North Eleventh street. After his death. Councilman Bringhurst became the partner of 
his widow in the well-known establishment. She withdrew ten or twelve years ago, 
and Mr. Bringhurst has conducted the business ever since. It is one of the largest and 
most profitable businesses in its line in the State of Pennsylvania, and the patrons of 
the firm include scores of the best known families in the city. For a number of years 
Councilman Bringhurst was president of the Undertakers' Association, and he has 
always been prominent in the annual gatherings of this organization. He is a well- 
known member of the Masonic order, and belongs to a number of other organizations 
and societies. 

Mr. Bringhurst has always been fond of art, and in his magnificent offices at 38 
North Eleventh street, he has a number of superb oil paintings, bronzes, and pieces of 
statuary, which would grace the gallery of any museum. 

Councilman Bringhurst is a man of delightful personality. He is fond of the good 
things of life, and in municipal matters his strength is yearly increasing. He wins 
friends but does not lose them, and all through his career in public affairs he has de- 
served and has obtained the approliation of the best citizens. 




Dr. Thomas J. Morton. Coroner's Physician, is one of the best 
known and most distinguished members of his profession in 
Philadelphia. He was born in this city June 30, 1861, and comes 
from old English stock, many of his ancestors having been 
physicians of prominence. 

He was educated in the public schools, graduated with honors 
from Jefferson College in 1885, and immediately began practice at his 
present residence. Tenth street near Master street. He was appointed 
Police Surgeon of the Twelfth District in 1885, was elected Medical 
Director of the Commonwealth ?ilutual Life Insurance Company in 1892, and was 
elected to Common Council from the Twentieth Ward in 1895, and has been continu- 
ously re-elected ever since to that branch of the city legislature. In May, 1896, he was 
appointed Coroner's Physician and has since held that position, where he has done 
good service to Philadelphia. 

He is a member of Lafayette Lodge of Free and Accepted I\Iasons, and also 
of the Fidelity Club and the Philadelphia Legal Society. 

Dr. Morton is one of the most popular physicians in the city, and one of the 
most influential men in Philadelphia in public affairs. His courage, high ability 
enormous capacitvfor successful work, and his enthusiasm and cheerful disposition, 
have won for him manv loval friends. 



Jesse T. Vogdes, Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Fairmount 
Park, was born in West Philadelphia, in the Twenty-fourth Ward, 
June 27, 1858. His father, Jesse T. Vogdes, Sr., was a prominent 
builder. Superintendent Vogdes was educated in private schools 
in West Philadelphia, and studied engineering with Joseph Johnston, 
District Surveyor. From the Survey Bureau Mr. Vogdes went to 
become assistant engineer to General Thayer, who was then Super- 
intendent of Fairmount Park, and his active services in connection 
with Park work have covered a period of eighteen 3'ears. During 
that tinie he has had control of the construction of the East and West Side drives, and 
supervision of all the important work of Fairmount Park. On February 11, 1898, 
he was chosen as Chief Engineer and Superintendent of Fairmount Park, which 
position he still holds. The magnificent improvement of Thirty-fourth street, in 
front of the Zoological Gardens, where the land was formerly nothing but a swamp, 
was begun, continued and finished under Chief Engineer Vogdes' direction. Chief 
Engineer Vogdes superintended the entire construction of the East River Drive from 
Lincoln monument to the Wissahickon. After the Centennial buildings were torn 
down .-ind removed, he had charge at that point of the great work of Park reconstruc- 
tion, which resulted in the magnificent Centennial Concourse at Memorial Hall. 





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Alexander M. DeHaven, the subject of this sketch, is 
one of the well-known members of the junior Bar of 
Philadelphia who has just passed his forty-second year. 
He was educated in the public schools of this city, in 
I Hasting's Academy and the University of Pennsylvania. 
I He subsequently entered the law offices of William 
Nelson West, then City Solicitor, and the Honorable 
Henry J. McCarthy, the present Judge of the Court of 
Common Pleas, and was afterwards associated with 
the latter in the practice of the law up to the time of 
the elevation of that eminent jurist to the bench, a few 
years ago. Then Mr. DeHaven became associated in legal business with Milton 
C. Work, under the firm name of Work & DeHaven, in which firm he still continues. 

At the earnest solicitation of friends, Mr. DeHaven entered the political field and 
was at once sent to Councils, where, it may be stated, that he used his legal talents 
freely for the city's good, as is exemplified in the legislation passed by Councils during 
his term of service. There is no matter of importance in the city's welfare that has 
not had the advantage of his legal training and experience, and it has been said that 
such men as he elevate the tone of political life. 

If no other political services had been rendered by him, he may rest his claim of 
having been a successful and worthy member, solely upon his efforts in having the 
rules of Councils which formerh^ required for the passage of all appropriation bills, 
"one-half of the members present," so changed as to require the votes of "two-thirds 
of the members elect, ' thus effectually preventing the possible enactment of the most 
important legislation of the session by a minority of the representatives of the people. 
The advisability of this change of the rules of the city's legislature has been frequently 
demonstrated. 

His successful opposition to the garbage contract, whereby $138,000 was saved 
to the city, is well remembered. In matters of public welfare, in which Mr. DeHaven 
was the champion, and in some instances the originator, may be named the ordinance 
requiring the employment of American citizens only in municipal work, and that re- 
quiring the contractors to pay standard and not cut wages ; the payment of union 
wages on all public printing, and his strenuous opposition to the electric light 
trust, the leasing of the gas works, the sale of the water works and tlie equally deter- 
mined and persistent advocacy of the Free Library of Philadelphia. 

As a debater, Mr. DeHaven may be regarded as a fearless advocate and a danger- 
ous opponent. Mr. DeHaven is in frequent demand in the matters of civic discussions 
as well as upon the platform of political conventions. 

H ' has been honored by being a member of the Law Committee and is at present 
chairman of the Highway Committee of the City of Philadelphia. 

His rise in professional life as well as in public life has been rapid and steady. In 
the former, he has been connected with some of the most important cases of the day, 
having given special attention to the laws relating to fraternal societies. The litigation 
of the Junior Order United American Mechanics, which has extended over seven 
States of the union, and which resulted in the suspension of more than 40,000 members 
of the order, is a notable instance and in which he has been required to contest with 
some of the most eminent lawyers of the day. 




■\\'iiKx Collector of the Port C. Wesley Thomas began his new 
term of office recently, under his re-appointment by President 
Roosevelt, he received letters of congratulation, to an extent un- 
known in the history of the office previously, from the great business 
bouses, commercial firms, manufacturing establishments and cor- 
porations of this city. Among those who wrote, expressing their 
pleasure at his re-appointment, and their satisfaction with his 
excellent administration of the office during his first term, were 
Drexel & Co., The Baldwin Locomotive Works, Peter Wright & Sons, 
The Cramp Ship-Building Company, and scores of other concerns as well known. Fifty 
letters of this description were received by the Collector in a single mail. Nor were the 
congratulations which he received confined to business men, for scores of professional 
men, well known, expressed themselves in a similar way, among them men who under 
ordinary circumstances would pay very little attention to any man in public position. 
Of this type were letters from John G. Johnson, Hon. A. K. McClure, and many others. 
Collector Thomas has not only administered the business of the Custom House with 
integrity, but he has shown a wide grasp on the commercial affairs of the Port, a 
thorough understanding of financial affairs, and an appreciation of the necessities of 
commerce. During his incumbency, he has made many improvements in the service, 
keeping it in touch with the growing commerce of the port, and his executive skill has 
been manifest in all that he has done. 




Mr. Ch,\rles S. B.\ir, one of the most successful of the young 
business men of this city, is the son of Andrew J. Bair, and has a 
wide acquaintance among the most prominent and successful men 
in Philadelphia. His hundreds of friends, among citizens of this 
ilass, have not only been attracted to Mr. Bair on account of his 
success, and his admirable personal qualities, but because he has been 
\'ery prominent in many of the most important social organizations. 
Me has always taken great interest in ^lasonic work. He is a 
past Worshipful Master of University Lodge, No. 6io; Chairman of 
the Stewards of University R. A. Chapter. No. 256. He is also 
Warder of Alary Commandery, Knights Templar, No. 36 ; a member of the \Vest 
Philadelphia Republican Club, The Athletic Club of Philadelphia, and is one of the 
Board of Governors of said Club , The Whip and Wheel Club of Merion, Waverly 
Castle, K. G.E., and is also a member of several other societies and social organizations. 
Mr. Bair is married, and has three children, and resides at 3813 Baring street. 
West Philadelphia. 

He is interested as a partner in the old and wealthy firm of Andrew J. Bair 6i: Son, 
the house which stands at the head of the Funeral Direction business in Philadelphia. 
It was founded by H. D. Stuard, in 1822, and from that date to this, in the retail branch 
of the business, it has numbered as its patrons hundreds of the most prominent families 
in the city. Its equipages are so magnificent that they have been chosen for the use 
of Presidents of the United vStates wlien visiting Philadelphia. 




William Malcolm Bunn was born in Philadelphia, Jan- 
uary I, 1842, the seventh among eleven children. He 
began his studies in the public schools, but, at the age of 
eleven, his studies were interrupted, and he went to work 
in a cotton mill, where his father was employed as a spin- 
ner. There he stayed three years, when his uncle, an 
Episcopal minister, who conducted an academy for boys 
at Havana, N. Y., took him in charge. When sixteen 
years old his father secured him a place with John Frost, 
a wood engraver, of this city. At the end of a year the 
boy became dissatisfied, however, and with an older 
brother he established a wood-carving business. 
When the Rebellion broke out he promptly enlisted, though not twenty years 
of age, and joined Company F, Seventy-second Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. 
He was severely wounded at Savage Station, Virginia, June 29, 1862, and was 
afterwards taken prisoner, being for some months confined in Richmond. When con- 
valescent he was exchanged and returned to Philadelphia, where he suffered a relapse. 
After being honorably discharged he returned to the army as sutler's clerk, and 
performed his duties well. 

He resumed the wood-engraving business in partnership with his brother, and the 
firm prospered. 

Chester A. Arthur, President of the United States, selected him as Governor 
of the Territory of Idaho. He was unanimously confirmed by the United States Sen- 
ate, and made a magnificent record in the gubernatdrial chair. He did good work for 
the advancement and improvement of the Territory, and had passed by the Legisla- 
ture an act disfranchising polygamous Mormons, the hardest blow Mormonism ever 
received. 

Governor Bunn is manager of the branch office of Wolf Brothers & Company, 
Bankers and Brokers, on the second floor of the Real Estate Building, at Broad and 
Chestnut streets, and there many of the best-known men in the city transact business 
in stock and bonds, and other securities. 

The firm is one of the best-known in the eastern part of the United States, and 
its splendid main offices, which occupy the entire first floor of the old Land Title 
Building, Nos. 608 and 610 Chestnut street, are filled with customers thoroughly 
representative of the mercantile, professional, financial and corporation interests of 
this city. The New York offices of the house are at No. 100 Broadway, New York City; 
and they are members of the Philadelphia and New York Stock Exchanges, the New 
York Produce Exchange, and the Chicago Board of Trade. The house has a high 
reputation for its enterprising and conservative management, and it transacts a very 
large business in this city, in New York, and in Chicago. It deals in all the stocks and 
bonds listed on the exchanges of the cities mentioned, and acts as agent for cities, 
towns and States, in placing their securities upon the general market. The increase 
in its business, in recent years, has been especially large, and it is known as one of the 
substantial firms of Philadelphia. 




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